"Driver rided the bus over a km through Bullets" Says Amarnath passenger

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"We were in the bus when firing was on from all the sides, the driver drove the bus for a kilometer. It was pitch-dark and we would see nothing ," the words are from Bhagya Mani from her bed at the Anantnag district hospital, who had been victimised the terror attack on the Amarnath bus on Monday night.

Bhagya Mani is from Maharashtra as the excruciating pain is nothing compared at her grief at losing her sister-in-law Nirmala,one of the seven pilgrims killed in the terror attack on a bus returning from Amarnath shrine in Kashmir.

The two women had planned the pilgrimage together for months and had joined a group of Yatris from Maharashtra and Gujarat. After Amarnath, they were heading for Vaishno devi.

Twenty pilgrims on the bus carrying 56 were wounded in the worst terror strike in the Kashmir valley in years. The police have said the Pakistan-based terror group Lashkar-e-Taiba was behind the attack.

The bus was surrounded from three sides and fired upon indiscriminately in South Kashmir. Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti visited the hospital and spent the night in Anantnag.

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