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Time of India
16 hours ago
- Time of India
Vadodara mourns plane crash victims, five cremated
Vadodara: A pall of gloom descended on Vadodara city as the bodies of five victims of the Ahmedabad airplane crash were cremated on Sunday. The authorities handed them to the family after their DNAs matched on Saturday. Three of these victims were residents of the Manjalpur area. The body of Kalpana Prajapati was brought to the city at 7 am on Sunday. "Her elder son arrived from the UK on Saturday evening. The final rituals were conducted, and Prajapati's body was cremated in the Manjalpur crematorium in the presence of her family, relatives, and friends," said Tejal Rana, Prajapati's friend. Hundreds turned up at her funeral. Prajapati delayed her visit to the UK as she wanted to travel with her sister-in-law. She boarded the June 12 flight alone as her sister-in-law's visa was rejected. Narendra Panchal and his wife Usha, residents of Manjalpur, were also travelling on the fateful flight to meet their son in the UK. Their final rites were conducted on Sunday. Another victim, Alcena Macwan, had travelled to the city from London to meet her parents who stay in the Nizampura area. She was returning by the ill-fated flight AI 171. by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like 2025 Top Trending local enterprise accounting software [Click Here] Esseps Learn More Undo Her cremation was done in the presence of her family and community leaders. The body of Anju Sharma, a resident of the Samta area, was also brought to the city on Sunday and final rites were performed. "It's a difficult moment for the victims of all the families as they couldn't even see their loved ones for one last time," said a family member. The Vadodara district administration said that they have deployed 21 liaison officers and 22 doctors to coordinate with the victims' family members and facilitate the final rites. Four officials were sent to Ahmedabad civil hospital to coordinate with the family members of the victims who have reached there to receive the mortal remains.
Indian Express
17 hours ago
- General
- Indian Express
Mortal remains of AI crash victims arrive via green corridor
Grief gripped the districts of Anand, Kheda and Vadodara city on Sunday as the mortal remains of the nine Air India crash victims reached their homes, packed in full-size coffins and wrapped in a white cloth. At each of the nine funerals– five of which were held in Vadodara and four in Anand, hundreds of grieving relatives, friends and neighbours surrounded the coffins to offer floral tributes, lamenting about being unable to see the face of their departed loved ones 'one last time'. Three of the five funerals were held in Vadodara's Manjalpur neighbourhood on Sunday. Family, friends and neighbours bid a tearful goodbye to Kalpana Prajapati, Vadodara resident killed in the Air India crash. She had taken her first flight to meet her son in London and was seen off by her close neighbours in the residential complex. On Sunday, as the coffin carrying her mortal remains arrived in Manjalpur, her son Vraj, who arrived from London to perform the last rites, stayed close to his mother's coffin. Family and close friends broke down inconsolably. Floral tributes were offered to the coffin on which the family placed a photograph of the departed victim to perform the rituals of 'solah shringar' as per Hindu traditions before being carried to the Manjalpur crematorium. Mortal remains of Narendra Panchal and his wife Usha were also brought to their Manjalpur residence from where family and friends accompanied the funeral procession in big numbers to the crematorium. Similar to Prajapathi, Anju Sharma was aboard the ill-fated flight to meet her son in London. A resident of Samta area, Sharma, who loved creating inspirational videos on Instagram, is being remembered as someone 'full of life', by her neighbors and friends. While her family and friends bid a tearful farewell, one of her neighbors recalls how one of Sharma's latest Instagram reel was about life's uncertainty with a background sound 'Aadmi Khilona Hai'. Elcina Makwana, a resident of Navayard's body, also arrived on Sunday evening and was laid to rest in the presence of several mourning relatives, neighbours and friends. BJP and Congress leaders attended the funerals of the crash victims in Vadodara. Similar scenes played out in Anand district too, where the bodies of Mahendra Waghela from Ramnagar, Mukund Ambalal Patel from Piploi in Khambhat and Aakash Kumar Purohit from Khambholaj were brought to their respective villages for the final rites. Officials of the Anand district administration including Collector Praveen Chaudhary and BJP MP Mitesh Patel and other district leaders remained present to offer condolences to the grieving families. The body of one crash victim from Kheda was brought to Anand district, as per the wishes of the family to conduct last rites. All the bodies were brought to their respective homes through a green corridor created on the Ahmedabad Vadodara National Expressway-1, with the district police of Ahmedabad, Kheda, Anand and Vadodara, piloting the ambulances along the stretch as per the communication received from nodal officers. Kheda Superintendent of Police Rajesh Ghadiya told Indian Express, 'The Kheda district administration has assigned one gazetted officer each to the families of the deceased from the district, who are accompanying the relatives through the journey… A green corridor has been created and the control rooms relay messages to the next jurisdiction beginning with Ahmedabad city for the next jurisdiction's pilot vehicles to take over.' Vadodara City Commissioner of Police Narasimha Komar said that the city police had deployed police staff within the city, anticipating the outpour of visitors. Sunday marked the first day in which the first of the 27 victims' mortal remains arrived in the city. Komar said, 'As per the communication relayed from the nodal officers, the police pilot van takes over the piloting at the beginning of the city police jurisdiction… Along with the district administration, the city police is extending its assistance to the families in every way possible during this time of tragedy.'
Indian Express
3 days ago
- Indian Express
Parents headed to London, children returning after visit: The story of 27 Vadodara families hit by Air India plane crash
Kalpana Prajapati from Manjalpur area of Vadodara was travelling to London for the first time. She was headed to visit her son Vraj — a wish she had harboured for long. Her husband Rajendra, who had dropped her off at the airport on Thursday, had barely reached Nadiad when he received the news that her flight AI-171 had crashed. Kalpana's story is similar to that of at least 27 Vadodara-based families – parents leaving for London to meet their children or the latter returning to the UK after visiting their kin – hit by the tragedy. Neighbours say that due to Kalpana's 'close ties' with their families, many of them had come to see her off on Thursday morning. 'The entire neighbourhood is weeping… We did not expect this. She was a doting mother, who only wanted to meet her son,' a neighbour said. Like Kalpana, Bharti Patel, another resident of Manjalpur, was going to London to meet her son. Similarly, Nizampura residents Vinod Patel and his wife Usha had boarded the flight to go to London where their son resides. Following the crash, their son is now travelling to India to submit his DNA samples. Among the passengers on the ill-fated flight was London-based Ketan Shah who was visiting his ailing father in Vadodara. Ketan is survived by his wife and two children, based in London.
