Father of R Thirumani being comforted as his son's body arrives in Chennai. Thirumani was killed in a stone-throwing incident in Kashmir. Pic/PTI

A 22-year-old Chennai tourist R Thirumani fell to stone throwers' missiles in the Valley on Monday, and those with a stake in Jammu & Kashmir are warning against brushing off stone-throwers as 'protesters'. Such labels, they say, are deceptively innocuous and stone throwers are terrorists whose aim is to maim or kill.