Out of these, 32 were killed on 2 August in 2000 in a massacre at Nunwan base camp in
Pahalgam. The dead included 21
Hindu pilgrims, 7 local
Muslim shopkeepers and 3 security officers. 7 other people were also injured.[2][3]
Details
A total of 89 people (official count) to 105 (as reported by
PTI) were killed and at least 62 were injured in five separate coordinated terror attacks, including the following partial count on the morning of 3 August 2000.[1]
On 2 August, at least 32 people were killed, who were mostly unarmed civilians. 21 were Hindu pilgrims, 7 were Muslims shopkeepers and porters, and 3 were security officials. The pilgrims were on their way to
Amarnath cave shrine on
annual pilgrimage. Many of those killed were local
Bakarwal,
Gurjar, Muslim men and porters hiring their horses and services to ferry the pilgrims to the site.[4] Subsequently, then the Prime Minister of India
Atal Bihari Vajpayee visited
Pahalgam and blamed
Lashkar-e-Taiba for the killings.[5]
At least 27 civilian migrant labourers from the Indian states of
Uttar Pradesh,
Bihar and
Madhya Pradesh, were killed in similar simultaneous terror attacks in Mirbazar-Qazigund and Sandoo-Acchabal in
Anantnag district.[1]
At least 11 unarmed civilian people were killed in a pre-dawn terrorist attack in a remote village in
Doda district.[1]
At least 7 unarmed civilian were killed when around the same time as Doda attack, another group of terrorists simultaneously attacked another remote village in
Kupwara to seven Muslim members of a family of a surrendered former militant.[1]
At least 8 unarmed civilian were killed and 2 more were injured in an ambush by terrorists on a group of
Village Defence Committee patrol party members of Kayar village of Doda district.[1]
Aftermath
Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee blamed
Pakistan for being determined to sabotage democracy in (then)
Jammu and Kashmir.[5]