20,000 tourists evacuated by a terrorist alert in India | Chronic

More than 20,000 tourists have been evacuated from the sacred area of ​​Mount Amarnath in the Kashmir region of India because of "Intelligence" who warned against a possible terrorist attack, reported Sunday an official source.

The evacuation was completed in two days and dozens of buses took tourists to Srinagar, the summer capital of Kashmir, over Dal Lake. Nissar Wani

Just last Saturday, more than 6,000 people boarded commercial flights and another 600 were transferred by military aircraft.

Many of the evacuees were Indians who participated in the annual pilgrimage to Amarnath, reported the ANSA news agency.

The local government ordered the evacuation as a result of "Intelligence" on the imminent attacks of terrorists backed by Pakistan.

This measure has been criticized by the opposition, which suspects the Hindu nationalist government of wanting to take the so-called terrorist threat as a pretext for debating the special status accorded to Kashmir by the Constitution.

"Kashmir is panicking and no one knows why these security measures were taken" said the former prime minister Omar Abdullah