India, April 23 -- A family vacation for the Satpathys from Odisha turned into a tragedy on Tuesday afternoon, moments after they had completed a zipline ride in Pahalgam.

Prasant Satpathy (43), an accounts assistant at the Skill Development Centre of the Central Institute of Petrochemicals Engineering and Technology (CIPET) in Balasore, had travelled to Kashmir with his wife Priyadarshini and their 9-year-old son Tanuj on April 19. Pahalgam was their final stop before their scheduled return to Bhubaneswar on Wednesday.

He was posing for a photo when a bullet struck him in the head. Priyadarshini and Tanuj managed to escape the scene unharmed.

"The firing was sudden and unexpected. When I saw my husband he was still breathing and could...