Three judges of the Kerala High Court, who were on a tour to Jammu and Kashmir, narrowly escaped the Pahalgam terror attack on Tuesday that claimed 28 lives.

The judges, Anil K Narendran, G Girish and P G  Ajithkumar, and their families were on a vacation in Jammu and Kashmir. Kerala Chief Minister’s  office (CMO) said the judges and their families had left Pahalgam for Srinagar a few hours before the attack. They are expected to return to Kerala on Thursday.

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The CMO also said that four members of the Kerala Assembly, M Mukesh, KPA Majeed, T Siddique, and K Ansalan, who were in Srinagar, were reported safe. The  MLAs  were part of a legislative delegation from Kerala.

N Ramachandran, a native of Edappally in Kerala’s Kochi, was killed in the attack. He was on a vacation with his wife, his daughter, and her two children.