“Everyone froze when a terrorist began shooting. He asked everyone to lay down. He approached us and said a word, which sounded like ‘kalma’, twice. When we said we didn't understand, he shot my father. When I hugged him, the terrorist poked the gun on my head. I don’t know whether it was to shoot or scare me. He walked away when my twin sons screamed,” recounted Aarti R Menon, daughter of Kochi native N Ramachandran, who was one among the 26 killed in the terrorist attack in Pahalgam in Kashmir on April 22.
