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Gun­men shot and killed at least 26 tourists on Tues­day at a re­sort in In­di­an-con­trolled Kash­mir, po­lice said in what ap­peared to be a ma­jor shift in a re­gion­al con­flict in which tourists have large­ly been spared.

Po­lice said it was a “ter­ror at­tack” and blamed mil­i­tants fight­ing against In­di­an rule. “This at­tack is much larg­er than any­thing we’ve seen di­rect­ed at civil­ians in re­cent years,” Omar Ab­dul­lah, the re­gion’s top elect­ed of­fi­cial, wrote on so­cial me­dia.

Two se­nior po­lice of­fi­cers said at least four gun­men, whom they de­scribed as mil­i­tants, fired at dozens of tourists from close range. The of­fi­cers said at least three dozen peo­ple were wound­ed, many of them re­port­ed to be in se­ri­ous con­di­tion.