Srinagar, May 1 (UNI) Days after National Investigation Agency (NIA) formally took over the April 22 terror attack probe, agency chief Sadanand Vasant Date on Thursday visited the carnage site Pahalgam to review the probe, officials said.



NIA teams have been already camping at the terror attack site since last week and intensified the search for evidence.



After arriving in Srinagar, the NIA chief immediately proceeded to Pahalgam, where officers of the counter-terror agency are briefed him on the ongoing investigation.



“ The NIA DG also visited Baisaran valley- the site of the carnage,” officials said.

In one of the deadliest terror attacks on civilians in J&K, 25 tourists and a local resident were shot dead on April 22 at Baisaran meadow in Pahalgam which shocked the nation. J&K police blamed Lashkar-e- Taiba’s shadow group “The Resistance Front” for the attack and released three sketches of militants including two from Pakistan who allegedly carried out the attack.

While the attackers are still at large despite a massive combing operation continues in woods of Pahalgam and surrounding area, the NIA investigators have been examining several eyewitnesses who had seen the horrifying attack unfold before their eyes at Baisaran valley.



Officials said the NIA is piecing together the sequence of events and gathering intelligence on the attackers.

Several eyewitnesses have been questioned over the last one week to piece together the sequence of events that led to one of the worst terror attacks in Kashmir.

The NIA teams, aided by forensic and other experts, are also checking the entire area thoroughly for evidence to expose the terror conspiracy



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