Crash: 4 from Karnataka feared dead

New Delhi: Four people from Karnataka were among the 15 “confirmed” Indian nationals who had boarded the ill-fated Kenyan Airways Ko-507 flying from Douala airport in Cameroon to Nairobi.
In a couple of days’ time Madhusudhan, his wife and their daughter would have been in their native Mysore on a month’s vacation. And, Ruby Paul, a trainer with one of the software MNCs based in Chennai would have returned to her base after a two-month long assignment in Cameroon, the West African country. But fate willed otherwise.
These four from Karnataka were among the 15 “confirmed” Indian nationals who had boarded the ill-fated Kenyan Airways Ko-507 flying from Douala airport in Cameroon to Nairobi. The Boeing 737-800 had crashed minutes after it took off from Douala.
Mr Madhusudhan, 42, his wife Bhagya, 34, and their daughter Poojitha, 10, were to take a connecting flight from Nairobi to Mumbai. Likewise, Ruby Paul, 32, too was to take a connecting flight from Nairobi to Mumbai. Mr Madhusudan, a chartered account, has been based in Cameroon for the last two years working with a pharmaceutical company, Strides Arco Labs.
Ms Ruby, a science graduate from St. Agnes College in Manglaore, had been working with a MNC in Chennai for the last two years. She was in Cameroon for the last two months on a visiting visa, her brother Roy George Paul told Deccan Herald.
07/05/07 K Subrahmanya/Deccan Herald

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