Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, June 17: The Union Home Ministry today handed over the probe into terror attack on a pilgrim bus at Teryath in Reasi district on June 9 to the National Investigation Agency (NIA).
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Nine people, seven of them pilgrims, were killed, and 41 injured as a bus carrying yatris mostly from Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan and Delhi plunged into a deep gorge after an ambush by terrorists in Reasi district.
The investigation into the June 9 terror attack on a bus in Reasi district of Jammu region has been handed over to the NIA, the officials said.
The NIA has taken over investigations from Reasi police and registered a fresh FIR in the case, they added.
The decision to handover case to the NIA came a day after Union Home Minister Amit Shah reviewed the security situation in Jammu and Kashmir and preparations for the annual Amarnath yatra in two back-to-back meetings in the Union capital.
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