Kochi, Apr 24: Two days after the Pahlagam terror attack, Arathi, an eye witness and daughter of N Ramachandran, a victim of the Pahalgam attack gave details about the incident and mentioned that people had started running when they heard the gunshots and there was a chaos.
She said that on hearing a gunshot, I asked my father what that sound was but he said he wasn’t sure. As we heard more gunshots, we started to run. We saw other people also running. It was a chaos overall.
Suddenly, we saw a man coming with a gun & there were two to three groups beside us. We saw the man asking the group something, and then he was shooting at them.
She said they said Hindus come to one side & Muslim to other side & they shoot Hindus.
At this, I panicked, and I told my father that the man was coming towards us. My father was calm, and he said let’s see what happens. The man came towards us and said, ‘Kalma.’
When we said we didn’t understand what he was saying, the man shot my father.
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