Congress Targets Centre; Says Amarnath Attack Unacceptable Security Lapse:- Over the terror attack on Amarnath pilgrims, Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi has hit out at the government.

The attack has been termed “grave and unacceptable security lapse” and asked Prime Minister Narendra Modi to accept responsibility. India, he said, will never be intimidated by terrorists. “This is a grave and unacceptable security lapse. The PM needs to accept responsibility and never allow it to happen again… India will never be intimidated by these terrorist cowards,” he said in tweets.

“I share the pain & anguish of families who lost loved ones in the terror attack on innocent Amarnath Yatris today”

I share the pain & anguish of families who lost loved ones in the terror attack on innocent Amarnath Yatris today

— Office of RG (@OfficeOfRG) July 10, 2017

“India will never be intimidated by these terrorist cowards”

India will never be intimidated by these terrorist cowards

— Office of RG (@OfficeOfRG) July 10, 2017

“This is a grave & unacceptable security lapse. The PM needs to accept responsibility and never allow it to happen again”

This is a grave & unacceptable security lapse. The PM needs to accept responsibility and never allow it to happen again

— Office of RG (@OfficeOfRG) July 10, 2017

Congress chief spokesperson Randeep S Surjewala, targeting the government, said the attack was a matter of serious security lapse on the part of the government and security forces.

The terrorists which fired the bus, was not registered with the Amarnath Shrine Board and not following any security cover, long after the evening deadline fixed for the vehicles carrting Amarnath pilgrims, he said. The attack claimed the lives of seven pilgrims in Kashmir. “These lapses allowed terrorists an opportunity to attack pilgrims. Condemning the “barbaric” attack, the prime minister must answer,” he said.

He quoted a string of terror attacks in the Valley and sought a time-bound inquiry into the matter. The terrorists last night killed seven pilgrims, including six women, and injured 19 others as they struck at a bus in Kashmir’s Anantnag district, in the worst attack on the annual pilgrimage since the year 2001.

SUPRAJA