What the records say
- When
- 2002
- Kind
- Massacre
- Deaths
- 11
- Coordinates
- 34.00° N, 75.32° E
- Description
- Attack on Hindus in Jammu and Kashmir
2002 Amarnath pilgrimage massacre
Attack on Hindus in Jammu and Kashmir
On 30 July and 6 August 2002, in the month of Shraavana, 11 people were killed and 30 injured in a terror attack by Islamic extremists from Lashkar-e-Taiba's front group of al-Mansuriyan, on Nunwan base camp at Pahalgam of the Amarnath Hindu pilgrimage (Yatra) to Amarnath Temple glacial cave shrine in Kashmir Valley in the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir.
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