Gunmen kill at least 20 in Kashmiri tourist town
Militant group's claims of responsibility for attack in Pahalgam not yet verified
The attack, which took place in an off-the-road meadow, involved two or three militants, the Indian Express newspaper reported, citing an unidentified senior police officer.
A little-known militant group called the Kashmir Resistance claimed responsibility for the attack in a social media message. It expressed discontent that more than 85,000 "outsiders" had been settled in the region, spurring a "demographic change."
The regional government of Jammu and Kashmir, where Pahalgam is located, told its legislature this month that nearly 84,000 non-locals from within India had been given domicile rights in the territory in the last two years.
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