Lucknow/Kanpur (UP), Apr 23 (PTI) The mortal remains of Kanpur businessman Subham Dwivedi and Nepalese national Sudip Neupane, killed in the Pahalgam terror attack, reached Lucknow on Wednesday night and escorted for their onward journey to their native places.

Uttar Pradesh Deputy Chief Minister Brajesh Pathak paid tributes to the departed souls at the Chaudhary Charan Singh Airport in Lucknow.

“The cowardly act of the terrorists will not be tolerated and a befitting reply will be given to them. The government is with victims’ families,” he said.

According to sources, Neupane’s body would be taken to the Sunauli border area in an ambulance and it will reach Nepal on Thursday morning.

The body of 31-year-old businessman Dwivedi, who was shot dead by terrorists in front of his wife in Kashmir’s Pahalgam, was sent to Kanpur in an ambulance and will be cremated on Thursday morning, an official said, adding it is likely to reach in Kanpur in the early hours.

While Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath will meet the victim’s family at their residence around 9:30 am, state Congress chief Ajay Rai said he will attend Dwivedi’s last rites in Kanpur.

Meanwhile, the local traders’ unions have announced a complete shutdown of shops and other business establishments in the city on Thursday till 2 pm to protest the terror attack, said Pankaj Arora, the president of Kanpur Mahanagar Sarafa Association.

Traders will converge at Nayaganj crossing of the city and burn effigies as a mark of protest against the dastardly attack and Pakistan, he added.

Dwivedi, who got married on February 12, was gunned down right in front of his wife in Kashmir’s Pahalgam. He was among the 26 people, mostly tourists, who were killed at Baisaran meadow near Pahalgam in one of the most gruesome attacks targeting civilians in Kashmir in a long time.

Shubham, who ran a company dealing in cement, had gone to Kashmir on a week-long vacation on April 16 with his wife and nine other family members.

The group, including Shubham’s parents, sister, brother-in-law, and her sister’s in-laws, visited Sonamarg and Gulmarg before reaching Pahalgam, sources said. PTI ABN COR ABN NSD NSD