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CatastropheAir India: a restitution of the remains punctuated by errors
A British family has received parts of another person. Another has received “mixed” remains. Tensions.
Dislocated elements of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner who crashed after his takeoff on June 12 of the city of Ahmedabad, India.
The family of a British victim of the Air India disaster has received the human remains of another person. Another family received “mixed” remains, a lawyer representing several of these families on Wednesday.
The Boeing 787 Dreamliner of the Air India 17 flight, which crashed after its takeoff on June 12 of the city of Ahmedabad, in the northwest of India, made 279 victims, including 52 British. A single passenger occurred in the disaster, the British Vishwash Kumar Ramesh.
On Wednesday, James Healy-Pratt, whose cabinet Keystone Law represents more than 20 British families who lost a loved one, the British agency PA told the restitutions of the remains of the victims had been punctuated by errors.
Thus, relatives of a victim discovered that the coffin which had been given to them contained “mixed” human remains, while another family learned that the body in the coffin was not that of their loved one.
These errors had been identified from the first restitutions by the British medical examiner, Fiona Wilcox.
MITIT PATEL, whose mother Shobhana died with her husband in the disaster, told the BBC that “other remains” that her mother had been found in her coffin after her body was repatriated to the United Kingdom.
“Tired” and “under pressure”
“People were tired and there was a lot of pressure. But you have to show a certain sense of responsibility and make sure that these are the right people you send to the United Kingdom, “he said to the channel.
On Wednesday, Indian Minister of Foreign Affairs Subrahmanyam Jaishankar said that his country “collaborates) closely with the British authorities”.
“All the fatal remains have been treated with the greatest professionalism and with respect for the dignity of the deceased,” he said in a statement.
According to James Healy-Pratt, this subject will be on the agenda for discussions between British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi, expected in London on Thursday to sign a free trade agreement.
(AFP)
