New Delhi, April 22 -- At least 26 people, mostly tourists, including two foreigners, were killed and 10 others injured in a terrorist attack in South Kashmir's picturesque Pahalgam hill station on Tuesday.

The Resistance Front (TRF), an offshoot of Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba, is believed to be behind Tuesday's attack, one of the deadliest in the recent past.

The last big terror strike in Kashmir was on June 9, last year the day of the swearing-in ceremony of Prime Minister Narendra Modi for the third term when unidentified terrorists fired upon a bus ferrying pilgrims, resulting in the death of at least 10 people and injuries to 33 others in the Reasi district of the Jammu region.

A terror attack at a construction site in Jammu an...