New Delhi, Jun 10: An NIA team has reached Jammu and Kashmir's Reasi district and is coordinating with local police probing into the terror attack on a passenger bus that left nine people dead and several injured, officials said on Monday.

Meanwhile, security forces have also launched a massive cordon and search operation to track down the terrorists responsible for the attack. A National Investigation Agency (NIA) team has reached Reasi and is coordinating with the local police probing into the attack, the officials said. Jammu and Kashmir Terror Attack: Bus With Pilgrims Plunges Into Gorge in Reasi Reportedly After Terrorists Open Fire, Casualties Feared (Disturbing Visuals).

Terrorists opened fire at the 53-seater bus, on its way from the Shiv Khori temple to the Mata Vaishno Devi shrine in Katra, causing it to veer off the road and fall into a deep gorge near the Teryath village of the Poni area on Sunday. The bus was ferrying pilgrims from Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan and Delhi. Reasi Terrorist Attack: Search Operation Underway in Jammu and Kashmir's Reasi After Terrorists Attacked Bus Carrying Pilgrims From Shiv Khori Shrine.

Officials said nine people, including a two-year-old boy from Rajasthan and a 14-year-old from Uttar Pradesh, died in the attack. They added that 41 people aged between three and 50 were injured in the ambush. Of them, 10 suffered gunshot injuries.