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NIA raids 5 locations in connection with terror attack on pilgrims’ bus in Jammu’s Reasi

The NIA says it's examining various items it seized to unravel the conspiracy behind the terror attack that killed nine people.

Rescue work underway after a bus carrying pilgrims plunged into a gorge following an ambush by terrorists, in Reasi district of Jammu and Kashmir. (PTI photo)Terrorists had opened fire at a bus carrying 'yatris' from Shiv Khori to Katra on the evening of June 9 in the Pouni area of Reasi district. (PTI Photo)

The National Investigation Agency said on Sunday that it searched five locations in connection with the June 9 terrorist attack on a pilgrims’ bus near Ransoo in Jammu’s Reasi district.

These locations were linked with “hybrid terrorists’’ and “overground workers’’, NIA officials said, adding that their teams were led there by Hakam Khan alias Hakam Din, who was arrested by the Jammu and Kashmir police in Reasi on June 19 for having allegedly provided logistics to the terrorists.

Hakam Din had provided the terrorists “safe shelter, logistics and food’’, an NIA statement said.

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The NIA said its searches led to the seizure of various items linking the terrorists with overground workers and that the agency was examining the seized material “to unravel the terror conspiracy’’.

Nine people were killed and many others injured when terrorists opened fire on a Katra-bound pilgrims’ bus near Ransoo in Reasi district’s Pouni area causing it to fall into a deep gorge. The pilgrims, who mostly hailed from Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan and Delhi, were returning after paying obeisance at the Shiv Khori shrine.

 

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