Grief as Bodies of Pahalgam Victims Return Home

With tearful eyes and hearts heavy with grief, the families of the Pahalgam terror attack victims received their loved ones’ bodies on Thursday. The brutal assault at Baisaran meadow in Jammu and Kashmir’s Anantnag on Tuesday claimed 26 lives, mostly tourists, marking the deadliest attack in the Valley since Pulwama in 2019. Among the victims were tourists from different parts of the country and a Nepali national.

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Officials first brought their bodies in coffins to Srinagar, where Union Home Minister Amit Shah laid wreaths, before flying them to their hometowns. Airlines operated more than 50 flights from Srinagar to ferry tourists and bodies of the victims to their destinations, along with 123 accompanying family members. Officials brought Navy officer Vinay Narwal’s remains from Kashmir to the Indira Gandhi International Airport in Delhi on Wednesday afternoon, then transported them to his hometown in Karnal, Haryana.

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Tributes and Final Goodbyes from Across States

His family held his last rites with full military honours. The 26-year-old officer had married just a week earlier and was on his honeymoon when terrorists shot him at point-blank range in front of his wife, Himanshi. Thousands of people, including Haryana Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini, attended his funeral in Karnal. The remains of Shubham Dwivedi, a 31-year-old businessman from Uttar Pradesh’s Kanpur, reached Lucknow on Wednesday night.

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Terrorists killed him in front of his wife, just two months after their wedding. He had gone to Kashmir on a week-long vacation on April 16 with his wife, parents, sister, brother-in-law, and her sister’s in-laws. . “Heartbreaking to witness a life so brutally snatched away, leaving a family to face an unimaginable loss. In an instant, everything changed for them,” he posted on X after paying tributes to Mr Chandramouli in Visakhapatnam.

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