Ambulances drive past Langanbal in Pahalgam enroute to rescue injured people who were injured in a terror attack in Pahalgam on April 22, 2025, a popular tourist spot.
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Timeline of major terror attacks on civilians in Kashmir since 2000.
March 21, 2000
Relatives of 35 Sikhs who were killed at Chattisinghpora, Anantnag, mourning their death on March 21, 2000. Anantnag is situated 55 km south-east of Srinagar,the capital of the northern Indian State of Jammu and Kashmir. According to eyewitness accounts, about 20 men, clad in olive green combat fatigues, arrived in the village at 7-15 p.m on March 20. They told the people that they were soldiers, and ordered the men out to be questioned. When the men were lined up in two groups, a few hundred metres from each other, the firing began. ,
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Militants targeted the minority Sikh community in Chattisinghpora village in Anantnag district on the night of March 21, killing 36 people.
August 2000
Ghulam Nabi Azad, Sonia Gandhi talking to the Amarnath pilgrims. Over thirty pilgrims were gunned down by militants | Photo Credit: NISSAR AHMAD
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Thirty-two people, including two dozen Amarnath pilgrims, were killed in a terror attack at the Nunwan base camp.
July 2001
Amarnath yatris were again targeted, this time at the Sheshnag base camp in Anantnag, killing 13.
October 1, 2001
A car in flames in Srinagar on October 1 after a car bomb exploded outside the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly building.
Jammu & Kashmir State Legislature Complex in Srinagar was struck by a suicide (fidayeen) terrorist attack, killing 36 people.
2002
Terror struck at Chandanwari base camp, and 11 Amarnath yatris were killed.
November 23, 2002
Indian army soldiers stand near the wreckage of a bus after a landmine explosion at Lower Manda, 90 kms (56 miles) south of Srinagar November 23, 2002. Nine people, including five soldiers, were killed and 19 injured in Kashmir on Saturday when a bus in which they were travelling ran over a landmine planted by militants, authorities said. They said the dead included two women and two children, relatives of the soldiers, and added that the death toll could rise as most of the wounded were in a critical condition.
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Nineteen people, including nine security force personnel, three women and two children, lost their lives in an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) blast at Lower Munda in South Kashmir on the Jammu-Srinagar national highway.
March 23, 2003
The State Congress President, Ghulam Nabi Azad, looking at the dead bodies of the 24 victims who were killed by unidentified gunmen at Nadimarg village at Shopian area, in the South of Kashmir, on March 24, 2003. 24 members of 11 Kashmiri Pandits’ families were reported to be killed in the attack.
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Terrorists massacred at least 24 Kashmiri Pandits, including 11 women and two children, at Nandimarg village in Pulwama district.
June 13, 2005
Police cops inspecting the debris of the vehicle which was damaged in an RDX filled improvised explosive device (IED) blast in Pulwama, 30 Kms from Srinagar on June 13, 2005. At least 15 persons, including two school children and three Central Reserve Police Force jawans, were killed and 60 others injured in the explosion.
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Thirteen civilians, including two school children, and three CRPF officers were killed, and over 100 people sustained injuries when an explosives-laden car blew up at a crowded marketplace in front of a government school in Pulwama.
June 12, 2006
Nine Nepali and Bihari labourers were killed in Kulgam.
July 10, 2017
Attack on Amarnath Yatra bus in Kulgam, 8 killed.
In this Feb 14, 2019, file photo shows security personnel carry out the rescue and relief work at the site of a suicide bomb attack at Lathepora Awantipora in Pulwama district of south Kashmir. The National Investigation Agency (NIA) filed a chargesheet on Tuesday, Aug. 25, 2020, in a special court here against 19 people including Masood Azhar, the chief of banned terror group Jaish-e-Mohammed, for planning and carrying out a deadly suicide attack on a CRPF convoy that left 40personnel dead in Pulwama, South Kashmir, in 2019.
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Besides these attacks, security personnel, too, have continually faced violence. A notable example was the 2019 Pulwama attack, where 40 CRPF personnel lost their lives.
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Published on April 23, 2025
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