National Investigation Agency To Probe Jammu And Kashmir Bus Attack

Nine people were killed and 41 injured as a bus carrying pilgrims plunged into a deep gorge after an ambush by terrorists in Jammu and Kashmir's Reasi district on June 9.

The Union Home Ministry on Monday handed over the probe into the recent terror attack on a bus in Jammu and Kashmir to the National Investigation Agency (NIA), officials said.

Nine people, including three women were killed, and 41 injured as a bus carrying pilgrims from Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan and Delhi plunged into a deep gorge after an ambush by terrorists in Jammu and Kashmir's Reasi district on June 9.

The terrorists opened fire at the 53-seater bus when it was en route from Shiv Khori temple to Mata Vaishno Devi shrine at Katra.