Wife of Victim Recounts Terror at Baisaran Valley

BENGALURU: Initially, Sujatha, wife of Bharat Bhushan killed in a terror attack, heard firing shots and thought it was crackers fired to scare birds/wild animals at Baisaran Valley in Pahalgam in Jammu and Kashmir on Tuesday at around 2.30 pm before she realized it was a terror attack and tourists gathered at the venue started to fell for the bullets fired at them. On her arrival in Bengaluru on Thursday from Jammu and Kashmir, Sujatha said after learning it was a terror attack at Baisaran Valley, her husband and son went into hiding at a tent nearby not before a militant ascended at the scene and caught hold of her husband.

Despite pleas from her husband, the militant with a gun in his hand head him dead by pumping bullets at his head. “My son and I hid ourselves in a tent,” she said and after while she recalled she took her son down the valley to reach a station of CRPF. “All along the route downhill, I heard continuous bullet shots,” said an inconsolable Sujatah recalling the terror.



Prior to the attack on Bharat, Sujatha said, a militant approached a tent where tourists went into hiding and the militant started to question a senior person “How can you people be happy with your children when we are in distress?” The senior person tried to convince the militant but his plea went unanswered and he fired at him in the head region. On her trip, Sujatha said, they reached Kashmir on April 18 and on April 22 at around 11.30 am, arrived at Pahalgam to visit Baisaran Valley, known as mini Switzerland of India, surrounded by lots of pine trees.

It takes about 4-km to reach Baisaran Valley and hire horses to reach the Valley top, said Sujatha and recalled prior to the terror attack, “We started to click for photographs at the spot.” “I along with other family members clicked for photographs at a tent wearing Kashmir costumes,” Sujatha said and stated soon the scenes turned tragic after the terror attack on tourists..