They went for vacation, returned in coffins: Full list of victims of the Pahalgam terror attack

The victims included one person from Nepal and one local from Pulwama. Maharashtra bore the heaviest toll with six deaths, followed by Gujarat and Karnataka, which lost three residents each. West Bengal lost two. One death each was reported from Uttarakhand, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Punjab, Kerala, Odisha, Andhra Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, and Arunachal Pradesh.

The full list of victims.

As many as 17 persons were injured, with the majority reported to be in stable condition. Maharashtra accounted for the highest number of injured with five individuals, followed by Gujarat and Tamil Nadu with two each. Karnataka and Indore, Madhya Pradesh also saw two residents each affected. Additionally, one person each from Nepal, Raipur (Chhattisgarh), Mumbai, Hyderabad, and Kolkata were injured.

Among the casualties was Lieutenant Vinay Narwal, 26, an Indian Navy officer from Haryana, was on his honeymoon in Kashmir with his wife Himanshi. He was shot dead in front of her while they were eating street food in Baisaran. His family had planned a birthday celebration for him on May 1. His remains are expected to reach his hometown Karnal for the last rites.

In Maharashtra, three maternal cousins—Hemant Joshi, 44; Atul Mone, 43; and Sanjay Lele, 50—were among the deceased. All three were residents of Dombivli (West) in Thane district and had travelled with their families for a holiday. Joshi, who worked in a private cargo company, had recently arranged eldercare for his father before heading to Kashmir with his wife and son. Mone was a Central Railway officer and Lele worked in the private sector. Their families are being flown back along with the bodies.

West Bengal lost two of its residents, including Intelligence Bureau officer Manish Ranjan, originally from Jhalda in Purulia district. Ranjan, who was posted in Hyderabad, was on a pilgrimage to Vaishno Devi and had planned to stop in Kashmir en route. He was travelling with his wife and was joined later by extended family. News of his death reached them as they themselves were beginning their journey.

From Karnataka, 47-year-old Shivamogga-based realtor Manjunath Rao was shot dead while buying snacks for his teenage son Abhijeya, who had just scored 98 per cent in his board exams. The family had travelled to Kashmir to celebrate the achievement. His wife Pallavi, a bank manager, said the attackers asked some of the victims to identify their religion before opening fire. Manjunath was killed instantly. His elderly mother is yet to be informed.

The bodies of the victims are being flown to their respective home states. With funerals being held across the country and investigations underway, the nation continues to reel from the terror attack.