New Delhi, April 22 -- The family was cowering in fear inside a tent when terrorists came. They asked Santosh Jagdale, 54, to come out and recite an Islamic verse. When he couldn't, they shot him thrice: once in the head, then behind the ear and then his back.

The 26-year-old daughter of the Pune businessman recounted to PTI the terror the family went through in the horrific attack in Pahalgam in Jammu and Kashmir on Tuesday.

After her father fell to the ground, the gunmen turned on her uncle who was lying next to her and shot him several times in the back.

"We were a group of five people, including my parents. We were in Baisaran Valley near Pahalgam and were at a spit called Mini Switzerland when the firing began," Asavari Jagdale to...