Air India crash families report silence, indifference from authorities
‘Not only did we lose family members, we have endured the pain of their remains being mishandled, mislabelled, mixed up, even lost’
The sole survivor of the Air India crash is still in India recovering from his injuries while British families of victims have told the Foreign Secretary they are still facing “silence and indifference” from authorities, according to reports.
Briton Vishwash Kumar Ramesh, 40, survived the disaster on June 12 that killed 241 people on board, and his wife has said he is grieving his brother Ajay, who had been sitting across the aisle.
Two families who received other victims’ remains in their relatives’ coffins wrote an open letter to Yvette Cooper calling on her to demand answers from her Indian counterparts over the blunder, the Times reported.
Ramesh’s wife told the newspaper she had returned to the UK with their young son and the rest of the family remained in India.
She said: “(My son) understands but still misses his dad. I’m not sure when he’s coming back to the UK as his treatment is going on.
“Everything happened in front of him and the main thing is he lost his brother. He’s not talking to anyone in the media, even in India.”