The video of the Tourist of the tourist captures the terrorist attack of the cashmere
Rishi Bhatt put on a blue helmet while he was preparing to slide on a zip line through the Baisaran valley in Kashmir, a “mini Swiss” where hundreds of tourists in India enjoyed an afternoon afternoon. Holding the rope in one hand and his smartphone in the other, he took off from the platform while the camera was starting to record.
A video filmed by Mr. Bhatt and verified by the New York Times shows the panic that takes place while activists can be heard by opening fires on tourists, killing at least two dozen people. His smile and cries of joy are a shocking juxtaposition with the terrorist attack that occurs under him.
While Mr. Bhatt, who visited his family in Ahmedabad, in the state of western India in Gujarat, begins his journey on the Tyrolean, the camera sets out through an open meadow. Crowds of people are gathered around what seems to be yellow and blue tents next to a large structure, which serves as an entrance to the valley. Others walk or bite on the grass, in the open air to enjoy the spring sun.
Then a shot can be heard in the video. Two other shots sound quickly while Mr. Bhatt goes over children jumping over a trampoline.
Below him, people panic and there is nowhere where is covered. Some tourists stand next to the Zorb bullets, clear inflatable balls that people enter and roll. As the shots continue, some people look behind their shoulder towards the entrance. An adult quickly picks up a child. A person squat and begins to sprint in the same direction as many others: towards a dense forest of cedars.
The images do not seem to show armed men. It was towards the end of the almost 40 seconds race by Mr. Bhatt on the zip line that he begins to look around, realizing that something is wrong.
“For about 20 seconds, I did not realize it; I was deep inside my pleasure in the zip line,” he told a local news channel in an interview. “Then I realized that the shot was taking place and people died below, and I saw five or six people had been shot.” After leaving the zipline, Mr. Bhatt said he had found his family, and they fled, managing to escape the unscathed attack.
Many things are not clear about last week’s terrorist attack which took more than 26 lives and injured 17 people. He increased tensions between India and Pakistan, the neighbor that India accuses of supporting terrorism, on the verge of military confrontation.
Mr. Bhatt’s video has become viral in India, becoming an element of evidence while the investigators bring together the details of the safety and what happened as a picturesque day turned into a horror.
