28 tourists killed... These were sons, husbands, fathers, and brothers. They came to see the beauty of Kashmir. But they never made it home.
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00:00This was the night before the Pahlgaam terror attack. Shubham was with his newly wedded wife
00:12Ashanya on their honeymoon in Kashmir. The terrorists asked if they were Muslim. When the
00:17couple couldn't recite the Kalma, they shot Shubham. Ashanya begged to be killed too. They refused.
00:23This family group from Dombeveli couldn't believe it was the Indian army at the door, not the terrorists.
00:42Manjunath Rao and his wife Pallavi had just begun their Kashmir trip.
00:54Moments later, Manjunath was gone.
00:59These families in Karnataka were recognizing bodies of their family members that arrived
01:03in a box from Pahlgaam. At least 28 people butchered. Tourists from Kanpur, Kashmir, Karnataka,
01:09Orissa, Bihar, Mumbai, Kolkata, Indore, Bangalore, Gujarat, Arunachal, Tamil Nadu, Nepal.
01:14Ramachandran was shot while riding a horse. He was a native of Edapali in Kochi.
01:19So was Sanjay Lakhan Lali from Mumbai. Syed Hussain Shah from Anantanag, a local horse rider
01:25and sole breadwinner for his family, was gunned down as well. Bear with me, this list will be
01:29difficult to watch, but these names, these lives deserve to be heard.
01:33Lieutenant Vinay Narwal, Indian Navy, was on leave, shot in front of his family.
01:38IB officer Samir Guha from Kolkata, gunned down. Indian Air Force Corporal from Arunachal,
01:43holidaying with his wife here, killed. Kostook Ganbote from Pune, killed. Dinesh Mirania from
01:49Braipur, celebrating his anniversary with his wife and kids, shot dead. Bitan Adhikari from Kolkata,
01:55shot dead while his wife and three-year-old son watched. Only they survived. Heman Suhas Joshi,
02:01a finance professional from Mumbai. Prashant Satpati from Balasur, Orissa. Manish Ranjan from Bihar.
02:07Shailesh Kalathia, a textile trader from Surat. Others came from Maharashtra.
02:11Atul Shrikant Mone, Santosh Jaagta, Kasturba Ganvatoy, all from different corners of the state.
02:17From Gujarat, a father-son duo, Yatesh Parmar and Sumit Parmar both killed.
02:22From Indor, Sushal Nathyal, from Nepal, Sandeep Nyopane, 32-year-old Neeraj Udwani from Jaipur
02:28was asked to show his ID card after which he was shot dead. They were IAF officers, IB officers,
02:33LIC managers, accountants, newlyweds, horsemen, engineers, businessmen. These were sons, husbands,
02:39fathers, brothers. They came to see the beauty of Kashmir, but they never made it home.
02:44Now, their families are left wondering for answers.