“Climbed Below Fence, Hid In Pit”: How Mysuru Man Survived Pahalgam Assault

A software program engineer from Karnataka shared one other survivor’s account from Jammu and Kashmir’s Pahalgam, the place a large terror assault killed 26 individuals. Prasanna Kumar Bhat took to X to share how he, alongside along with his household and round 35-40 others, narrowly escaped the lethal terror assault on April 22.

“We survived the horror to inform the story of what can solely be described as monstrous act and paint the heavenly magnificence blood-red with hellfire,” Prasanna Kumar Bhat wrote, recounting the horror in an in depth social media publish.

In his publish, Mr Bhat claimed that his brother, a senior Indian Military officer, saved the lives of about 40 individuals by guiding them to security. “By the grace of the God, luck, and a few fast pondering from an Military officer saved not solely our life however lives of one other 35-40 people who day,” he wrote.

Yet one more survival story from the contaminated Baisaran valley in Pahalgam. We survived the horror to inform the story of what can solely be described as monstrous act and paint the heavenly magnificence blood-red with hellfire.
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— Prasanna Kumar Bhat (@prasannabhat38) April 25, 2025

Mr Bhat shared that he reached the scenic Baisaran valley, alongside along with his spouse, brother and sister-in-law, on the afternoon of April 22 after suspending their journey by two days attributable to dangerous climate. They have been having fun with themselves when, round 2.25 pm, they heard the primary two gunshots. “It was adopted by a pin drop silence for a min and everybody was simply comprehending what had occurred and the children taking part in throughout have been nonetheless having fun with one of the best picnic of their life,” he recalled.

Inside moments, he and his household noticed two our bodies mendacity, and his brother “knew instantly that this was a terrorist assault”, he wrote. “Then the hellfire broke, the gunshots got here in bursts and chaos ensued. There was cacophony of the gang screaming out loud and operating for all times,” his publish learn.

“So a lot of the crowd ran in the direction of the gate for escape the place the terrorists have been already ready, like sheeps operating to the tiger. We may see a terrorist approaching in our route, so we determined to run the opposite method and happily we discovered a slender opening beneath the fence and most people hiding slide by the fence and began operating the opposite method,” Mr Bhat added.

He stated that his brother rapidly assessed the scenario and guided his household, together with 35-40 vacationers, in the wrong way. “He guided the individuals to run within the downward route to maneuver away from the place the place the firing was taking place. It was a slope the place the water stream was flowing so gave some stage of safety from direct line of sight. It was very slippery to run on the muddy slope however many slipped however managed to run for all times,” Mr Bhat recalled.

“We 4 managed to take a canopy in a slender pit beneath the timber a couple of hundred metres from the situation desperately praying for our lives. The sound of the gun photographs continued to echo by the valley for half an hour till 3 pm,” he continued.

“We stayed put within the pit for an hour petrified, hopeless, and praying for security. We did not know if we needed to keep put in the identical place or run in some random route hoping to flee the loss of life lure. All of the whereas occupied with our little youngsters and fogeys who we had left behind house and never figuring out when this may finish,” he added.

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By 3.40 pm, the sound of a helicopter then signalled the arrival of safety forces. By 4 pm, the military particular forces secured the realm and escorted survivors to security. “The gun photographs nonetheless echoes in our ears and the phobia nonetheless makes my intestine wrench. It will depart a everlasting scar, a reminiscence that can’t be erased of what Kashmir’s magnificence hides beneath,” he wrote.

“I pray that no person ever has to undergo such expertise of terror of their life. We pray for his or her souls and I hope God will present justice to them. Lastly I need to categorical my gratitude to my brother and the complete Indian Military due to whom we’re alive to relate this incident in individual and be again along with our household,” Mr Bhat wrote, including that he and his household have safely returned to Mysuru.