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2000 Amarnath pilgrimage massacre

The 2000 Amarnath pilgrimage attack on 1 and 2 August was the massacre of between 89 and 105 people, with 62 others injured in at least five different coordinated attacks by Kashmiri millitants in Anantnag district and Doda district of Kashmir.

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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. Subsequently, then the Prime Minister of India Atal Bihari Vajpayee visited Pahalgam and blamed Lashkar-e-Taiba for the killings. • 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. • At least 11 unarmed civilian people were killed in a pre-dawn terrorist attack in a remote village in Doda district. • In a remote village in Kupwara, militants killed seven members of a family belonging to a surrendered Islamist militant • At least 8 unarmed civilians 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. ==Aftermath==
Aftermath
Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee blamed Pakistan for being determined to sabotage democracy in (then) Jammu and Kashmir. ==See also==
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