section_path: Attack/Targeted attack on Hindu tourists
section_name: Targeted attack on Hindu tourists
paragraph_text: Targeted attack on Hindu tourists
  
  The militants asked for the names and religions of the tourists, and specifically targeted those who were Hindus. The attackers killed the Hindu men after separating them from the Muslim men. Some tourists were asked to recite the Islamic verse of kalima, so that the militants could segregate them by religion. Some Hindu men were forced to remove their trousers to check for a lack of circumcision before being shot at close range. The militants told some Hindu women that they were spared so that they could narrate the horrors of their men's killing to the Indian Prime Minister, Narendra Modi.
  
  The first tourist to be shot was newly married Shubham Dwivedi from Kanpur, who was visiting Kashmir with his wife. The militants approached the couple and asked, “Are you a Hindu or a Muslim?” and Dwivedi responded that “We are Hindus” and was shot point-blank in the head. Another newlywed victim was Indian Navy lieutenant, Vinay Narwal from Haryana, who went to Pahalgam six days after his wedding with his wife. In a viral video of the attack, his wife is heard saying "a man suddenly came and said he's not Muslim then shot him." The militants shot three bullets into Narwal's neck, chest and thighs "after realizing he was a Hindu”.
  
  The daughter of a Hindu tourist from Pune recounted that militants asked her father to recite an Islamic verse, and "when he failed to do so, they pumped three bullets into him, one on the head, one behind the ear and another in the back”. The wife of another victim from Andhra Pradesh told the state's deputy chief minister Pawan Kalyan that she and her husband lay on the ground, and the terrorists asked twice, " Hindu hai, muslim hai? " (lit. ' Are (you) Hindu? Are (you) Muslim? '), and when they did not respond, her husband was shot dead. A Bengali Hindu professor from Assam, who hid his identity by reciting the Islamic kalima escaped the killing, while a Christian man from Madhya Pradesh was shot dead after being unable to recite the kalima. His wife said the attackers took selfies with the dead bodies.