Mum hunts for 'lost' baggage

A Bharaini mother is trying to locate an Indian man, who she believes will be able to lead her to baggage she lost while travelling from India to Bahrain.
Salma Mohammed Khan claims she handed over a cardboard box at Santa Cruz Airport, Mumbai, to the man because she had excess luggage.
The 54-year-old says they both travelled on the same Gulf Air flight on December 1 but doesn't know his name because she didn't ask.
She planned to get the box from him, containing clothes and gifts, on reaching Bahrain, but failed to find it at the luggage collection area.
Her efforts to trace the man in Bahrain have proved futile because he could have possibly travelled to Dehran, Afghanistan, the flight's final destination.
"I had gone to India during the second week of November to visit my sick aunt," said the woman, who didn't want to be named
"After staying for nearly 20 days, I was returning to Bahrain via the Santa Cruz Airport, Mumbai, on December 1.
"I had extra luggage, for which I would have been asked to pay money.
"That's when I spotted a young man, in his early 20s, and he didn't have much luggage.
"I asked him where he was going and he said Bahrain, or at least that's what it sounded like, and so I gave the carton to him.
"When I reached Bahrain International Airport, I saw him a few metres away from me and he gestured to me that his work was over.
"I hadn't checked at the luggage collection area till then, from where I hoped to collect my carton, and told him he could leave.
"But when I went to get the box, everybody's luggage arrived except mine.
"The problem is that I don't know his name and he doesn't know mine."
Mrs Khan was told by airport authorities that the man could have been travelling to Dehran because that was the flight's final destination.
They need to have the passenger reference number attached to the luggage to trace it, she was told.
31/12/07 Begena Geroge/Gulf Daily News, Bahrain

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