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The ZIP line video from Tourist captures the Kashmir -Terror attack

Rishi BHatt put on a blue helmet when he prepared to pull down a zip line over the Baisaran Valley in Kashmir, a “mini Switzerland” in which hundreds of tourists from India enjoyed a sunny April afternoon. He held the rope in one and his smartphone in the other hand and started from the platform when the camera started recording.

Video, which was shot by Mr. BHatt and verified by the New York Times, shows the panic when militant can be heard on how to open on tourists and kills at least two dozen people. His smile and his Glee calls are a shocking side by side to the terrorist attack below him.

When Mr. BHatt, who visited his family from Ahmedabad in the West Indian state of Gujarat, his journey begins along the zipper line, the camera swings over an open meadow. Human quantities are gathered in the apparently yellow and blue tents next to a high structure, which serves as the entrance to the valley. Others take a walk or picnic in the grass, outdoors to enjoy the spring sunshine.

Then a shot can be heard in the video. Two other shots ring in a quick episode than Mr. Bhatt goes over children who jump on a trampoline.

People are panicked under him and there is nowhere to cover. Some tourists stand next to Zorb balls, clear inflatable balls that include and roll people. While the shots continue, some people look behind their shoulders for the entrance. An adult quickly takes up a child. One person crouches and begins in the same direction as many others to sprint: in the direction of a dense forest made of cedar trees.

The film material does not seem to show the armed men. Towards the end of Mr. Bhat's almost 40-second trip over the ZIP line, he begins to look around and to notice that something is wrong.

“I didn't notice for about 20 seconds. I was deep in my fun in the ZIP line,” he said in an interview with a local news channel. “Then I realized that the shot had expired and the people died below and I saw that five or six people had been shot.” After he got out of the zip line, Mr. Bhatt said that he found his family and they fled and managed to escape the attack unscathed.

It is still unclear that the terrorist attack of last week violated more than 26 lives and 17 people. It has the voltages between India and Pakistan, the neighbor who accuses India of supporting terrorism, the rate of military confrontation.

Mr. Bhats Video has become viral in India and became a proof when the investigators put together the details of the security flap and what happened as a picturesque day became a horror.

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