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Jammu: After the terrorist attack on a bus of pilgrims in Jammu and Kashmir's Reasi district two days before, survivors recall that the assaulters kept firing at the fallen bus for almost 20 minutes. The attack had killed nine people.
According to them, the driver was hit in the firing, and the bus plunged into the deep gorge. But the terrorists did not cease firing, IANS reported.
They said that they pretended to be dead inside the bus till the terrorists thought their job was over and left the place.
Five of the deceased had gunshot wounds. And, out of the 41 injured, 10 suffered gunshot injuries.
"Even after the bus crashed into the gorge, the terrorists kept firing at the bus. I managed to push my children under the seats of the bus despite being injured myself," one of them said. "It was a horror I will never forget in my life."
Another survivor said, "I first saw the militants blocking the road of the bus, and then I saw the driver's head falling on the steering wheel. And, then the bus fell into the gorge," he said.
"Suddenly, someone cried that militants had attacked the bus. I immediately pushed my wife and son under the seat, but before we could take the cover, the bus fell into the gorge, and I lost my grip on my son," a third survivor recalled. His 14-year-old son died.
Four members of a family from Rajasthan's Jaipur, including a 2-year-old boy and two cousins from Uttar Pradesh's Balrampur district, were among those killed in the terror attack on the bus.
Security forces have formed 15 teams to hunt down the perpetrators of this terror attack. Some arrests have already been made, and the arrested persons are being questioned, IANS reported.