The government has shared visuals, sourced from Pakistani social media accounts, of ‘Operation Sindoor’ – the tri-services overnight precision strike on nine terrorist camps in Pak and Pak-occupied Kashmir. The strikes were India’s first military response to the April 22 terror attack in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pahalgam, in which 26 people were killed at a tourist hotspot.
In one video, a crowd of people, many on bikes, is gathered on a busy road. It is the middle of the night but, on the horizon, there is a large orange glow and smoke can be seen in the distance.
Seconds later, there is a whistling sound and a massive detonation as an Indian missile, possibly either the air-launched, long-range SCALP or the Hammer, a stand-off smart bomb, hits one of its targets. The impact of the strike causes the man filming the video to stagger back.
A large and bright orange fireball follows, sending plumes of acrid smoke mushrooming out in all directions, and people can be heard praying in Arabic and shouting in panic.
Another video is from the dashboard of car as it drives past police check posts.
The driver can be heard conversing with a passenger. And just as one person utters the word ‘bomb’, a second explosion and deadly orange fireball can be seen in the distance.
