India, April 23 -- Jayashree was with her son barely five minutes away from the Baisaran meadow when sounds of gunshots shattered the serenity of the Valley on Tuesday afternoon as terrorists affiliated to The Resistance Front shot dead 26 people in the South Kashmir tourist hotspot.

"We landed in Pahalgam yesterday and took a pony ride around 12.45pm," she told media persons. They were about to reach Baisaran meadow "in just five minutes", roughly five kilometres from Pahalgam. The mother-son duo landed in Srinagar from Chennai on April 19.

"Our pony rider was telling us that, in about five minutes, we were about to see the most beautiful spot in India that resembles Switzerland," the mother said. "By then, some people were running wit...