Reasi bus terror attack, 4 from Rajasthan and 3 from UP among 9 victims

Mamta and Rajendra Saini’s three children are waiting for their parents’ return from a Vaishno Devi pilgrimage. They will never come back.

Cloth merchant Rajendra Saini (42), his wife Mamta (40), their relative Pooja Saini (30) and her two-year-old son Titu are among the nine killed after terrorists opened fire at a bus carrying pilgrims in Jammu’s Reasi district on Sunday evening.

The couple’s two sons, one of them a



minor, and daughter have been told that their parents were injured in a road accident in Jammu and they were being brought to Jaipur for treatment, the relatives said.

The 53-seater bus, on its way from the Shiv Khori temple to Katra, veered off the road following the barrage of gunfire and fell into a deep gorge near the Teryath village of the Poni area.

Pooja Saini’s husband Pavan (32) has been injured, a police officer said.