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They Came as Tourists. They Were Hunted for Their Faith.
28 tourists were gunned down by Pakistan based terrorists near the resort town of Pahalgam in Jammu &Kashmir, marking the deadliest terrorist attack on India since the 2019 Pulwama strike.
She sits frozen, her eyes hollow with disbelief. Just moments earlier, she was sharing bhel puri with her husband. Then a man approached, asked if he was Muslim. When he said no, he was shot dead — point-blank, in cold blood.
The woman, Himanshi, had just started a new life with 26-year-old Indian Navy officer Lieutenant Vinay Narwal. The two were newly married and on their honeymoon in Kashmir.
A few meters away, another story unfolded — just as heartbreaking.
A family of three from Karnataka —Pallavi, her husband Manjunath, and their 18-year-old son — were on a sightseeing trip in Pahalgam. Manjunath had gone to fetch bread for his son who had not eaten since the morning. Moments later, Pallavi and her son heard a gunshot. The gunshot they heard was of terrorists shooting Manjunath in the head after making sure he was Hindu. She found him slumped, blood pooling beneath his head. Her 18-year-old son confronted the gunman — “You dog, kill us too!” — the terrorist…
