Rishi Bhatt put on a blue helmet while preparing to slide through a pulloline through the Baisaran Valley in Kashmir, a “Mini Switzerland” where hundreds of tourists from India enjoyed a sunny afternoon of April. Holding the rope in one hand and his smartphone in the other, he took off from the platform as the camera, recording.
The video filmed by Mr. Bhatt and verified by the Panic of the New York Times that develops, since the militants can be heard opening fire against tourists, killing at least two people of Dien. His smile and his screams of joy are a discordant juxtaposition to the terrorist attack that occurs under him.
While Mr. Bhatt, who was visiting with his family from Ahmedabad, in the western state of Gujarat, begins his trip through the zip line, the camera accelerates an open meadow. A multitudes of people are collected around what seems to be yellow and blue tents next to a high structure, which serves as an entrance to the valley. Others are taking a walk or making a picnic in the grass, outdoors to enjoy the spring sun.
Then you can listen to a shot in the video. Two more shots in rapid succession when Mr. Bhatt passes on children who jump on a springboard.
Under him, people are panic and there is no place to collect. Some tourists are standing next to the Zorb balls, the clear inflatable balls that people receive and Roda. As the shots continue, some people look behind their shoulder towards the entrance. An adult quickly picks up a child. A person bends down and begins to run in the same direction as many others: towards a dense forest of cedars.
The footage does not seem to show the gunmen. It is towards the end of the trip of almost 40 seconds of Mr. Bhatt for the zip line that begins to look around, realizing that something is wrong.
“For about 20 seconds I did not realize; I was deeply in my fun in the zip line,” he said in an interview with India Today, a main Indian news channel. “Then I realized that the shot was happening and people were dying underneath, and I saw that five or six people had legs in the legs.” After leaving the Tirolesase, Mr. Bhatt said he found his family, and fled, escaping the attack without stopping.
Much is still clear about the terrorist attack last week that toke more than 26 lives and wounded 17 people. He has intensified tensions between India and Pakistan, the neighbor that India’s batteries support terrorism, on the verge of military confrontation.
Mr. Bhatt’s video has gone viral in India, becoming a single evidence as researchers join the detailed details of the security period and what happened when a picturesque day became one of horror.