New Delhi:
Pune -based businessman Santosh Jagdale and his family were hiding inside a tent as crying as shots of firing through a tourist hotspot in Pahgam, Jammu and Kashmir.
The horror began when he “dressed as a local police, firing from a hill, while firing, said his daughter Ashwari. He, his mother Pragi and his father Santosh, along with other tourists, arrived in a nearby tent. He admitted that the sounds of bullets outside had a exchange between the attackers and security forces.
Then a chilling command came “Chaudhary, you come out (Chaudhary, you come out). His father was taken out of the tent by the attackers, and the attackers in the following exchange were convicted for supporting Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Aswari said there were many tourists around, but the terrorists especially targeted men after asking whether they were Hindus or Muslims. The 26-year-old said, “He then asked my father to recite an Islamic poem (perhaps Kalma). When he failed to do so, he pumped three bullets, one head, one on the head, behind the ear and the other in the back,” 26-year-old said that the gunman went to his uncle and shot him again and again. Police and security forces reached the spot after 20 minutes, he said.
Unaware of whether his father and uncle were alive, Ashwari, progress and relatives were extracted from the Basaron Valley of Pahgam by local people and security forces.
Shri Jagadale was one of the six people in Maharashtra, one of the 26, who died in a terrorist attack in Pahgam on Tuesday. The other five had Atul Mane, Sanjay Lele and Hemant Joshi, all residents of Thane, Kaustubh Gunbot of Pune and Dilip Dosale of Navi Mumbai.
Mr. Mane, 45, was a senior section engineer in the Central Railway. His friend Vivekananda Samanta recalled that he used to travel together in a local train and planned to visit Pahalgam together.
Shri Dosle Navi was part of a group of 39 tourists from Mumbai, who attended an organized tour in Jammu and Kashmir.
Nagpur and a couple of his son participated and never looked back, Besaran ran away just before the attack started in Meadow. “The incident occurred when we left the place of the incident. We could hear the sound of firing for a long time. Everyone was trying to run away from the place,” the person told Annie. As the score tried to get out of the same gate, measured about 4 feet in width, his wife fell and two fractures were faced, one of them in legs.
People unable to escape did not find any place to hide in wide, open space.
In the Besaran Valley, often called ‘Mini Switzerland’, the attackers set fire as tourists were leisurely engaged in activities. The choppers were deployed only to evacuate the injured, accessible from the meados. Local people also assisted in evacuation, affecting the affected for safety on their pony.
Two foreigners and two locals were involved in 26 dead in the most deadly attack in Jammu and Kashmir since the 2019 Pulwama strike. Resistance Front (TRF), banned Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Tabi (late) Terror Group claimed responsibility.
