India forces kill three gunmen involved in Indian Kashmir tourist terror attack
Two of the three were identified as members of Pakistan-based terror group Lashkar-e-Taiba.
India denied it bowed to US pressure to agree to a truce with Pakistan.
Indian security forces have killed three gunmen who were involved in an attack on Hindu tourists in Indian Kashmir, home minister Amit Shah said on Tuesday.
The heavily-armed men were killed in a military operation on Monday, more than three months after 26 people were gunned down in a popular resort town of Indian Kashmir on 22 April.
'I want to tell the parliament (that) those who attacked in Baisaran were three terrorists and all three have been killed,' he said.
Shah identified two of the three killed as members of Lashkar-e-Taiba, a UN-designated terrorist group based in Pakistan.
'Indian security agencies have detailed evidence of their involvement in the attack,' he said in a speech in the lower house of parliament.
Monday's operation took place in the mountains of Dachigam, around 30km from the disputed region's main city of Srinagar, the army said in a statement.
The attack in April saw gunmen burst out of forests near Pahalgam and rake crowds of visitors with automatic weapons.
All those killed were listed as residents of India except one man from Nepal.
India accused Pakistan of backing the attackers, a charge Islamabad denied, sparking an intense four-day conflict between the nuclear-armed rivals that killed more than 70 people on both sides.
Muslim-majority Kashmir has been divided between India and Pakistan since their independence from British rule in 1947, and the neighbours - who both claim the region in full - have fought two wars and several conflicts over its control.
Reuters reported India's defence minister said on Monday that New Delhi had ended its military conflict with Pakistan in May as it had met all its objectives and had not responded to pressure, rejecting US President Donald Trump's claim that he brokered the truce.
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Defence Minister Rajnath Singh was speaking at the opening of a discussion in parliament on the 22 April attack on Hindu tourists in Indian Kashmir in which 26 men were killed.
The attack led to a fierce, four-day military conflict with Pakistan in May, the worst between the nuclear-armed neighbours in nearly three decades.
'India halted its operation because all the political and military objectives studied before and during the conflict had been fully achieved,' Singh said.
'To suggest that the operation was called off under pressure is baseless and entirely incorrect,' he said.
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