At least 26 people were killed and more than a dozen injured after gunmen opened fire on a group of tourists in Indian-controlled Kashmir.

Kashmir Resistance,” a previously unknown militant group, claimed responsibility for the attack in two messages on social media.

By Fayaz Bukhari SRINAGAR, India (Reuters) -Indian security forces launched a massive hunt on Wednesday for militants suspected of killing 26 men at a tourist destination in Kashmir in the worst attack on civilians in the country in nearly two decades,