[2] Ten to twelve people wearing Indian Army uniforms carried out the massacre.
The doctor who was sent to do the post mortem examination suffered a heart attack on seeing the bodies and was admitted to the hospital.
[2] The attacks were believed to have been an attempt to derail the impending talks between the Indian government and the All Parties Hurriyat Conference.
[4] The killings received widespread condemnation, including from the President of India A. P. J. Abdul Kalam and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
[2] India blamed the Pakistan-based terrorist group Lashkar-e-Taiba and called it "cross border terrorism".