New Delhi: Prime Minister Modi, who was on a two-day visit to Saudi Arabia, cut short his visit and returned to the country after the terror attack in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pahalgam district that killed at least 26 people and injured several others.
Soon after his arrival at Delhi airport, the Prime Minister was received by the National Security Advisor (NSA) at the airport, who briefed him about the terror attack and the security situation in the Union Territory. He held a meeting at the airport along with Doval and External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar soon after his arrival.
Nirmala Sitharaman too returns to India
Earlier Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, who was also in the US on an official visit, returned to India. “Union Minister for Finance and Corporate Affairs Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman is cutting short her official visit to the USA-Peru. She is taking the earliest available flight back to India to be with our people in this difficult and tragic time,” the Finance Ministry wrote on X.
On Tuesday, at least 26 people were killed and several others were injured after terrorists opened fire at a resort in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pahalgam district. The attack was claimed by The Resistance Front (TRF), the group, the proxy of the Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) terrorist organisation.
Shah briefs PM Modi on the terror attack
Home Minister Amit Shah left for Jammu and Kashmir after the attack. “Anguished by the terror attack on tourists in Pahalgam, Jammu and Kashmir. My thoughts are with the family members of the deceased. Those involved in this dastardly act of terror will not be spared, and we will come down heavily on the perpetrators with the harshest consequences,” he wrote on X before leaving for J&K. He also briefed PM Modi about the attack in a telephonic conversation before leaving for the Union Territory.
