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Rajnath Singh, then Indian home minister, visited Jammu and Kashmir, and dossiers on the attack and suspected perpetrators were prepared.

In an impassioned speech in the Jammu and Kashmir assembly on Monday, the state's chief minister and tourism minister Omar Abdullah paid tributes to the victims by reading out names of all the 26 people.

Without mentioning the demolitions, Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah said the guilty must be punished without mercy, "but don't let innocent people become collateral damage".

"The enemies of the country, of Jammu and Kashmir, did not like this," he said in his monthly radio address.

An all-party meeting in Jammu and Kashmir expressed deep shock and anguish at what it called a "barbaric attack".