Hello and welcome to NewsHour from the BBC World Service.
We're coming to you live from London.
I'm James Menendez.
And we're going to begin today in a part of the world that's known for both its mountainous beauty and the conflict that's raged there on and off for the best part of 80 years.
Kashmir as a whole is claimed by both Muslim-majority Pakistan and Hindu-majority India.
It was divided between the two after partition in 1947.
And it's been a constant sore in relations between these two nuclear-armed neighbours.
Nevertheless, for the past few years, tensions and violence had lessened.
Until yesterday, that is, which saw one of the worst attacks on civilians for a very long time.
26 people shot dead by suspected Islamist separatists,
most of them Indian tourists visiting the Himalayan valleys of Palgam in Indian-administered Kashmir.
Well, this man was in the town when the gunman opened fire.
Here he is speaking from hospital.
I was sitting there for five or ten minutes when I suddenly heard firing.
Then the chaos began.
People started running around.
Some fell, some broke their hands and some got hurt.
I also got hurt.
And this tourist was also visiting the area but managed to escape.
People said, run quickly, we're under attack.