India, April 23 -- A 65-year-old man from Kerala's Kochi city was gunned down by terrorists in front of his daughter and grandchildren in Jammu and Kashmir's Pahalgam town.

Terrorists struck at a tourist location in Pahalgam in south Kashmir on Tuesday, killing at least 26 people, mostly tourists, and injuring several others.

A former Gulf expat and a resident of Edapally, N Ramachandran, loved to travel, family members recalled on Wednesday.

Ramachandran had left for Kashmir with his wife Sheela, daughter and her minor twin children, on Monday for holidays. The family had decided to go on vacation in Kashmir after his daughter flew home to Kerala from Dubai where she lived.

According to his family members, Ramachandran was shot dead ...