Teen, infant die on Mumbai flights

Mumbai: It was a twin bereavement for Andheri resident Maria Kutty. She lost her husband on Sunday and her teenage son the next day while the family was boarding a flight to Kerala to perform the last rites of Kutty's husband.
Hours later on Tuesday morning, another mother, Ibakuluma Mary, was on board a flight to Mumbai when her ailing baby died in her arms.
Maria's son Sanju Thomas Kutty, 16, was suffering from muscular dystrophy, a degenerative neurological disorder. Soon after he was carried on board the aircraft by Air India staff, he complained of breathlessness, and was lifted out. But by the time the ambulance rushed him to the airport doctor, he was already dead. The autopsy revealed that he had died of complications arising from his condition of muscular atrophy.
A day later, Nigerian citizen Ibakuluma Mary, 26, was on an Ethiopian Airlines flight to Mumbai when her baby girl, Obiokonkwa Kelechi, who was suffering from a heart condition, took ill. A doctor on board did his best to treat the infant, who failed to respond. On landing in Mumbai, the baby was rushed to the airport doctor, but it was too late. Obiokonkwa was six months old.
14/11/07 Rajiv Sharma/Times of India

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