India, April 27 -- A software engineer from Karnataka's Mysuru and his family were among the set of people who managed to survive the deadly April 22 terrorist attack in Baisaran near Jammu and Kashmir's Pahalgam.

Prasanna Kumar Bhat recalled what he described as a "monstrous act" which painted the "heavenly beauty blood-red with hellfire".

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In a post on X, Bhat claimed that his brother, a senior Indian Army officer who was on vacation with him, saved his life and that of 35-40 other people on the day of the attack.

The software engineer, who had postponed his trip by 2 days due to bad weather and to cover Pahalgam, was vacationing with his wife, brother, and sister-in-law.

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