Survivor Recounts Horror of Baisaran Meadows Terror Attack:

Suspense Crime, Digital Desk : The security personnel have been active in looking for the militants who attacked the Pahalgam region, resulting in the death of 26 people in Baisaran meadows. An engineer from Karnataka, Prasanna Kumar Bhat, detailed the painful experience he faced in the Baisaran valley in a social media post.

In the post circulating on social media, Bhat mentions that he and the rest of his family witnessed the heinous incident on the 22nd of April. In his own words, “It was an act of savagery that took a breathtaking valley and turned it into a bloodbath.”

Yet another survival story from the tainted Baisaran valley in Pahalgam. We survived the horror to tell the story of what can only be described as monstrous act and paint the heavenly beauty blood-red with hellfire.
By the grace of the God, luck, and some quick thinking from… pic.twitter.com/00ln2y0DJo
— Prasanna Kumar Bhat (@prasannabhat38) April 25, 2025

Army Officer Saves Dozens During Chaos

Bhat shared how his brother, a senior Indian Army officer, saved close to 40 other people along with him. “By God’s grace, luck and quick thinking, my brother managed to save our lives and 35-40 people,” Bhat said.

Bhat was on a short holiday to Baisaran valley along with his wife, brother and sister in-law when the incident occurred. He mentioned how he was in disbelief after hearing two gunshots and the deathly silence that followed as everyone seemed frozen.

Gunfire, Chaos, and a Narrow Escape

Utter pandemonium ensued after the first round of gunfire was let loose. People, as Bhat recalls, started stampeding towards the exit without realizing that the terrorists were waiting at the exit. Bhat and his family saw one terrorist move closer and decided to take a different route.

A group of individuals slid beneath a fence, which Bhat describes as a “narrow opening,” and fled in the opposite direction.

And that is when his brother quickly took the family and remaining tourists to a slope with a water stream as some cover from the assailants. Although the slope was persistently muddy and slippery, the group was able to avoid the ‘line of fire.’

Bhat recalls that with his family, they sheltered in a small pit under a tree where they waited it out for almost an hour, shock subdued them. “Extreme fear and fight like response took hold of us.”

Bhat added: “We are in utter state of shock, utter helplessness, surrounded by strangers feeling lost and terrified beyond belief.”

When hearing scares from a helicopter at around 15:40, some said hope started to emerge. “Army special forces arrived, securing the rest of the area, providing safe escort check points to survivors,” was said after 16:00.

Painful noises which are referred to as ‘gunfire’ cloud the mind for numerous people, as Bhat explains. “This unquestionably enduring reality is painful echo.”

Gratitude was expressed as deep for him and the family, wishing for their safe return to Mysuru. This showing of courage unexpectedly from the brother and Indian army enabled Bhat and his family ‘survive’ or as he quotes.