Shivamogga, April 22 -- What was meant to be a peaceful family holiday in the Kashmir valley turned into a living nightmare - and a haunting message from the mouth of terror has now travelled over 2,500 kilometres to a tear-stricken home in Shivamogga.

Pallavi Rao, who saw her husband gunned down in front of her eyes, was spared only to deliver a bloodstained message to the Prime Minister: "Tell (Narendra) Modi what you saw."

In one cruel moment, a family's joy was turned into mourning, and a mother's scream was silenced by the unbearable burden of survival.

Pallavi, a resident of Shivamogga, had been vacationing in the picturesque town of Pahalgam in Jammu and Kashmir with her husband, Manjunath Rao (47), and their son Abhijaya, when ...