Kochi native among J&K terror attack victims

KOCHI: A Kochi native was among those killed in Tuesday’s Pahalgam terror attack. As per news reaching the family, N Ramachandran, 65, son of Narayana Menon of Srambickal family in Edappally, was shot dead by terrorists when he went for trekking along with daughter Arathy to Pahalgam’s ‘Mini Switzerland’ around 3 pm on Tuesday. Arathy escaped unhurt.

Ramachandran, a businessman who was based in Qatar, had returned to Kochi recently. He went to visit Kashmir along with wife Shiela Ramachandran, Arathy and two grandsons on Monday. The family boarded a flight from Kochi to Hyderabad from where they got the connection flight to Srinagar.