presentation - masters in homeland security and anti-terrorism- gujarat forensic sciences university, gandhinagar, gujarat,india.

1. AMARNATH YATRA ATTACK 2017
Chitania Foram P.
Msc HSAT (1st sem.)
000FSMSHS1718004

4. ANANTNAG , AMARNATH YATRA ATTACK
 On 10 July 2017, the first Monday of the month
of Shraavana, 8 Hindu civilian pilgrims on the way from
Amarnath Temple in Kashmir Valley, in the Indian state
of Jammu and Kashmir were killed in a terror attack. The
pilgrims mostly belonged to the Indian state of Gujarat.
Among the at least seven people killed, six were women,
and at least 19 people were injured in the attack.

5. ABOUT AMARNATH YATRA
 The 48-day July–August annual Hindu pilgrimage,
undertaken by up to 600,000 or more pilgrims to the 130
feet -high glacial Amarnath cave shrine of iced stalagmite
Shiv linga at 12,756 feet (3,888 m) in Himalayas, is called
Amarnath Yatra. It begins with a 43 kilometres mountainous
trek from the Nunwan and Chandanwari base camps at
Pahalgam and reaches the cave-shine after night halts at
Sheshnag Lake and Panchtarni camps.[14]

7. 2017 AMARNATH YATRA ATTACK
 Part of kashmir conflict
 Location – Anantnag district, jammu & kashmir, india
 Date – July 10, 2017 at night time
 Attack type – mass shooting
 Deaths – 8
 Injured – 18
 Victims – hindu pilgrims
 Perpetrators – lashkar-e-taiba
 Assailants – 4 LeT attackers
 Accused – Abu ismail(master mind)

8. MASTER MIND - ABU ISMAIL

9. PREVIOUS INCIDENTS
 Prior to this incidence, terrorists have attacked the Amaranath yatra at
least 3 times, killing at least 54 and injuring at least another 105 people,
including at least 38 unarmed civilian Hindu pilgrims, at least 10 Muslim
civilian support service providers, and at least 6 security personnel.
 From 1991 to 1995 due to the threats from terrorists, pilgrimage was
banned
 On 2nd August 2000, by hizmul mujhahideen terror group
 On 20th July 2001
 On 30 july and 6 August 2002, terrorists from al-Mansuriyan, a front
group of the Lashkar-e-Taiba.
 On 7 July 2017, terrorists attacked a civilian bus that was on the Baltal-
Jammu route where movement of vehicles is not allowed after 7 p.m.
due to the militants' threats. A tyre of the bus was punctured, taking two
to two and a half hours to repair. Pilgrims are not allowed to travel on the
route without road-opening parties and secuity escorts which were
withdrawn at around 7:30 p.m. The bus was also not registered with the
Amarnath shrine board.

10. ATTACK
 4 Lashkar-e-taiba militants involved in it, stated by Munir khan
IGP (kashmir).
 They had planned to carry out attack a day earlier, but there was
no movement of CRPF or amarnath pilgrim vehicles in isolation.
 Act of terrorism with the motive of spreading fear
 The gunmen first attacked a police bunker in botengo which was
retalited, later gunmen attacked a police post at khanabai with the
fire being returned and the bus carrying the pilgrims being caught
in the crossfire.
 the bus was attacked by two sets of terrorists, first at a petrol
pump in Batingu at 8:17 PM and again a few minutes later after
which the bus was escorted by a police patrol van to police lines
in Anantnag.

11. CONTINUED…
 The white coloured bus number plated (GJ09Z9976) at which the
firing took place carried about 50 pilgrims. It was reported by the
Indian media that the attack was carried out by 3-5 terrorists at
the location of Khanabal. Though the bus contained more than 50
people, a larger number of casualties was prevented to a great
extent due to the actions of the bus driver named "Saleem
shekh". Despite the bus being fired on by the bullets in all
directions, the bus driver continued driving the bus in a calm
manner for about 1 km before stopping at an intersection.
 Seven pilgrims from Gujarat, Maharashtra, and Telangana,
including six women were killed in the attack. Another pilgrim
succumbed to her injuries on 16 July.

12. ACTION OF SECURITY FORCES
 Security forces, including J&K Police and Central
Paramilitary forces of India, jointly intensified the cordon and
search grid-based ongoing "Operation Hunt Down" to track
and kill the LeT, Jaish-e-Mohammad and Hizbul Mujahideen
terrorists placed on the identified "hit list", and had already
killed 102 terrorists from 1 January to 14 July 2017.
 All over ground workers who had provided logistic support to
the terrorists had been identified by 24 July. All of them had
been arrested by 27 July.
 Abu Ismail, the main accused, was killed along with an
associate Abu Kassim on 14 September by security forces
in Nowgam.

13. REACTIONS OF PEOPLE
 The protestors in the Jammu Division burnt Pakistani
flags in protest of the terrorist attack. They expressed a
lack of confidence in the Mehbooba Mufti government
and demanded the imposition of Governor's Rule in the
State.
 After being blamed for the attack by the police, a LeT
spokesman condemned the attack and termed it
unislamic. They denied they were involved in the
attack, blaming it instead on the Indian intelligence
agencies.

16. Thanking you…..