Several hundred people gathered today to mourn the massacre of 24 Hindus in disputed Kashmir ahead of a visit by India's deputy prime minister.
Suspected Muslim militants shot dead 24 people, including 11 women and two children, on Sunday night in the village of Nadi Marg, after ordering them to line up outside their homes.
Indian deputy prime minister Mr Lal Krishna Advani was due to visit the village, amid rage in India over the attack, which some members of the ruling Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party have blamed on militants based in Pakistan.
Pakistan has condemned the attack. None of the nearly dozen guerrilla groups fighting Indian rule in Kashmir claimed responsibility for the killings, but India has long accused Muslim Pakistan of helping the militants, a charge Islamabad denies.
Shops and schools also shut across Jammu and Kashmir, the only Muslim-majority state in mostly Hindu India, in protest against the killings.
Streets were deserted in Srinagar, the summer capital of the state, where the main separatist alliance, the All Parties' Hurriyat Conference, had called a strike, saying in a statement it strongly condemned the killings.