Mission Balakot

"Boom!" "Bang!"

Sound of an explosion followed by the dreadful, agonising shrieks of people. The flaring up of a blaze in a matter of seconds!

Fragments of the bus and of bodies strewn around…

All this happened within seconds on the zigzag turn.

While two thousand five hundred jawans of the CRPF were travelling by bus on the Srinagar highway, nestled in mountain ranges on all four sides, a car came from the opposite direction, sliced through tight security and dashed into the bus. Chaos reigned. Everything fell silent as suddenly as when it had blown up. Everything became motionless... deathly still…"