baisaran valley

Pahalgam Attack First Responder Recounts Trauma After Seeing Bodies Scattered in Baisaran Valley

Abdul Waheed Wani, 39, president of a Ponywallah association in Pahalgam, was among the first responders to reach Baisaran valley after the April 22 terrorist attack that killed 26 tourists, including a local ponywallah, and wounded 17 others. He describes witnessing bodies with head shots, hearing a woman's desperate cries for her husband, and finding a surviving victim with bullet wounds. The memories continue to haunt him, and he keeps busy to push away the trauma.