India plane crash victim had flown home to bury his father

By Sunil Kataria and Sudipto Ganguly

Ahmedabad (Reuters) -lawrence Christian flew to India to bury his father. Two weeks later, his family is now waiting to bury him.

30-year-old Christian worked in the UK and was one of the passengers in Air India, Air India 787-8 Dreamliner, who was connected to London, fell with 242 people on the ship a few seconds after Ahmedabad last week.

When he sat on the plane, he gave me a video call and offered me, Rav his mother Ravina cried inconsistently while sitting with her daughter Rinal in Ahmedabad’s house in Ahmedabad.

“The last thing he said was to call me after off and off his phone.”

Except for a person on the ship, all of them were declared dead in the worst aviation disaster in the world. About 30 people died on the ground.

Ravina Christian lost her husband Daniel to the heart -related complications in May and her sons won the only bread in the family.

Christian’s grandmother Salvina Christian said, “We lost everything, the three of us stayed here. Our power, our pride, everything is gone. We lost the light of our house.”

The family was waiting to take Christian’s ruins.

Doctors at Ahmedabad’s largest state hospital rely on dental recordings and DNA samples to identify the dead.

Imitaz Ali Sayed, his brother Javed Ali, his brother’s wife, his six -year -old son and four -year -old daughter is one of the people waiting to hear whether he was defined.

Four of them were visiting India to celebrate a family festival and to visit their mothers, and he was assumed to be dead in the accident, but he said he still hopes that they could survive.

“There is still hope inside. Everything is possible. Almighty, who decides whether a person has lived or died,” said Reuters outside the hospital.

(Reporting by Sunil Kataria and Sudipto Ganguly; Writing by Shilpa Jamkhandikar;