According to Tolo News, the exact number of casualties has not been disclosed, and the cause and nature of the explosion still remain unclear. Security officials have not yet issued a detailed official statement.
First, Pahalgam, then Delhi, two major terror-related incidents within eight months have shocked the nation.
Citing a major intelligence failure and a worrying delay in official response, the Congress demanded that Home Minister Amit Shah take responsibility for the security lapse.
The Cabinet expressed profound grief over the loss of innocent lives in the terror attack that occurred near the Red Fort on the evening of November 10.
In a statement, he said, ''To our dear friend @narendramodi and to the brave people of India: Sara (Netanyahu's wife) and I, and the people of Israel, send our deepest condolences to the families of the victims.''
Several social and political organisations, including the Vishwa Hindu Parishad, Bajrang Dal, and BJYM, organised bandhs, “Aakrosh Sabhas” and demonstrations in Jaipur and several cities on Friday, to express anguish and condemn the terror attack in Pahalgam.
He said that the terror attack in Pahalgam was the result of intelligence failure and lapse of the security measures adopted by security agencies despite the fact that the Union Territory has been under constant terror attacks.
Nepal's Foreign Minister Arzu Rana Deuba on Wednesday confirmed that a Nepali national died following the ghastly Pahalgam terror attack in Jammu and Kashmir.
Chief minister Mamata Banerjee today expressed shock and anguish over the terror attack at Pahalgam in Kashmir at the state cabinet meeting held at the secretariat, Nabanna today.
Prashant Satpathy, an accounts assistant with the Central Institute of Plastics Engineering and Technology (CIPET) in the Balasore district, was shot dead by armed terrorists yesterday afternoon at the picturesque Baisaran meadow right in front of his wife and nine-year-old son.
