Salted curry, missed ride, gut instinct — How 39 survived in Pahalgam - video Dailymotion

These tourists narrowly escaped the 22 April 2025 Pahalgam terror attack thanks to delays, detours, and pure luck.

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00:00A muttoned Rogan Josh, so salty that they had to get a second plate,

00:03saved this family from the Pahelgaam terror attack.

00:06Lavanya from Kochi says it was the restaurant staff's insistence on remaking the dish

00:10that unknowingly bought them 90 minutes and their lives.

00:22That's Manali Thakur from Mumbai, who was honeymooning in Pahelgaam just hours before the attack.

00:26The couple narrowly escaped death due to a local driver's quick call,

00:30had gotten wind of the attack and stopped them from going ahead.

00:33Jai Shree from Chinnai also had a miraculous escape.

00:48This group of 17 tourists from Maharashtra, Skolapur and Solapur districts narrowly escaped the Pahelgaam terror attack

00:54as they couldn't find horse rides needed to reach the valley.

01:04That's Santosh Jagdale from Sanghi.

01:06His family mistook him for Santosh Jagdale, another person with the same name who died in the attack.

01:11These tourists from Dharash in Mumbai said they were saved because their driver sensed

01:15something was wrong and took a detour just in time.

01:18That's Vishal Sangokar and his wife at the same spot just a day before the Pahelgaam attack.

01:22They said they escaped the Pahelgaam attack thanks to a cancelled booking.

01:33That's Tilak and Simran Roop Chandani from Nagpur.

01:35They had just left Baisaran Valley when gunshots rang out.

01:39Just 20 minutes separated us from death, Tilak said.

01:42His wife Simran fractured her leg in the chaos, but the family managed to escape.

01:46These are the stories of people who survived not because they saw it coming,

01:49but because of small delays, lucky instincts and unplanned detours.

01:53A salty curry, a missed horse ride, a driver's gut feeling, a name mix up, a fractured leg.

01:59These were the things that saved them.

02:00We were in the brim of the death and we are back to life.

02:04Madam, you have no tension, we are back to life.

02:06What happened to someone?

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02:08What happened to someone?

02:09What happened to someone?

02:10You were back to someone.