Seven Hindu pilgrims killed in militant attack

Indian leaders united with Kashmiri separatists to condemn an attack on a bus yesterday that killed seven Hindu pilgrims and threatened to exacerbate tensions in the country’s only Muslimmajority state.

Six women and a man died when gunmen opened fire on a bus carrying Hindus on a pilgrimage to a Himalayan cave revered as the abode of the god Shiva. It was the worst attack in the divided Himalayan region since 2000.