2024 Reasi attack

The 2024 Reasi attack was an Islamic terrorist attack that occurred on 9 June, 2024 in the Reasi district of the Jammu division of Jammu and Kashmir, India. Several unidentified terrorists opened fire on a passenger bus boarded by Hindu pilgrims travelling from the Shiv Khori cave to Katra, causing it to lose control and plummet into a deep gorge, followed by further firing at the crashed bus by the gunmen. Nine people were killed in the attack, and an additional 41 were injured.

Quotes

• One eyewitness told India Today that the firing on the mangled bus went on for around 20 minutes. "After having darshan at Mata Vaishno Devi, I went to Shiv Khori. While returning from there, after 4-5 km, bullets were fired on our bus. The firing did not stop even after our bus fell into the ditch. The driver was shot and then some people were also injured in the firing," a survivor told ANI.
  • Reasi survivors played dead as terrorists kept firing after bus fell into gorge

• Another survivor confirmed that the terrorists kept on firing. "I went for darshan of Shiv Khori. While returning, some people opened fire on our bus. Later, the bus fell into a ditch. Several people were injured in the incident. The firing did not stop even after the bus fell. I think there were 2-3 (terrorists) there. My son saw a man firing on our bus from behind," he added.
  • Reasi survivors played dead as terrorists kept firing after bus fell into gorge

• As the country begins tweeting #AllEyesOnReasi, comparing the brutal killings of Hindu pilgrims in Jammu to the killings in Palestine by Israel and spreading more hate and division, no one really knows the stories of the victims and the wants of their families.
  • Tanushree Pandey on 14 June, 2024 at The Wire, In the Shattered Lives of Poor Pilgrims, the Human Toll of Reasi Terror Attack. also quoted in [1]