Kashmir: Tourists begin to trickle in months after April killings in Pahalgam

Twenty-six people were killed in an attack on tourists visiting a meadow near Pahalgam town in April.

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Shabana Awwal is making videos of her children as they take turns to get on a water bike for a ride on the Dal Lake, Srinagar city's most iconic tourist spot.

Ms Awwal has travelled from the western state of Rajasthan with her husband and children in a group of 15 - all members of their extended family.

"I've visited Kashmir many times and seen all the major attractions such as Gulmarg, Sonmarg and Pahalgam and wanted to show all these places to my relatives," she tells the BBC.

The Awwals had planned their 10-day trip in March. "Summer in Rajasthan is unbearably hot so we'd planned to escape to Kashmir during the children's school vacation," she says.

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