Kochi, April 25 -- Aravind, son of N Ramachandran, who was killed by terrorists in the Pahalgam terror attack, said that the terrorist asked them to recite the 'kalma', but when he failed to do so they instantly shot his father in the head.

"My parents, sister, and her 8-year-old twin sons travelled to Kashmir on 21 April. On 22 April, my sister called to tell me that there had been a terror attack in which my father had been killed in front of my sister and her children. They heard gunshots while on a horse ride, and jumped off their horses to try to escape. They crawled through a fence, thinking they were safe on the other side. But that's when they encountered a terrorist asking them to kneel," Aravind told reporters on Thursday.

"He...