Manhunt after Kashmir shooting
Newshour
BBC
4.4 • 984 Ratings
🗓️ 23 April 2025
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
A manhunt is under way in Indian-administered Kashmir where Islamist separatists shot 26 people dead on Tuesday. As helicopters scoured wooded mountains for the attackers, ambulances brought the bodies of the victims -- most of them Indian tourists -- to Kashmir's summer capital, Srinagar. Also in the programme, a long queue of mourners is filing past the body of Pope Francis, paying final respects as he lies in state in St Peter's Basilica, and today marks 20 years of YouTube - we speak to a woman who has been making videos since the early days. (Photo: Members of Indian security personnel patrol a highway leading to South Kashmir's Pahalgam, after the attack. Credit: Adnan Abidi/Reuters)
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to NewsAv from the BBC World Service. We're coming to you live from London. I'm James Menendez. |
| 0:10.4 | And we're going to begin today in a part of the world that's known for both its mountainous beauty and the conflict that's raged there on and off for the best part of 80 years. |
| 0:20.3 | Kashmir as a whole is claimed by both Muslim |
| 0:22.5 | majority Pakistan and Hindu majority India. It was divided between the two after partition in |
| 0:28.8 | 1947. And it's been a constant sore in relations between these two nuclear arm neighbours. |
| 0:35.7 | Nevertheless, for the past few years, tensions and violence |
| 0:39.0 | had lessened, until yesterday, that is, which saw one of the worst attacks on civilians for a very |
| 0:45.3 | long time. Twenty-six people shot dead by suspected Islamist separatists, most of them |
| 0:51.2 | Indian tourists visiting the Himalayan valleys of Palgum in India and Minister |
| 0:55.8 | Kashmir. Well, this man was in the town when the government opened fire. Here he is speaking |
| 1:00.7 | from hospital. |
| 1:03.8 | I was sitting there for five or ten minutes when I suddenly heard firing. Then the chaos began. |
| 1:09.9 | People started running around. Some fell, |
| 1:12.4 | some broke their hand and some got hurt. I also got hurt. And this tourist was also visiting the area, |
| 1:18.9 | but managed to escape. People said run quickly, we're under attack. |
| 1:29.3 | We could hear firing behind us. |
| 1:32.6 | People around us were panicking and trying to get out. |
| 1:35.7 | We were also able to get out slowly. |
| 1:37.3 | There was a lot of chaos. |
| 1:39.6 | A lot of people were still stuck there. |
| 1:42.0 | Some people were with their children. |
| 1:43.5 | There were many children. |
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