Body of Indian stuck at Muscat airport after coffin not loaded on flight

The dead body of an Indian expatriate has been lying at Seeb Airport in Muscat in Oman for two days now, as an Indian airline’s cargo handlers “forgot” to load the coffin on the plane.
Relatives have been waiting to receive and cremate the body of the dead man who committed suicide about 15 days ago.
Airline and cargo officials are now working to repatriate the body of Jinesh Chandran (24) who killed himself on February 5 at Saham in Oman.
The body was to be sent home by an Air India Express flight from Muscat to Kozhikode at 1.45pm and his relatives were waiting at Kozhikode airport to receive the body.
C M Jabbar, a Muscat-based social worker of Kairali, a socio-cultural organisation, said: “It is the first time that a coffin was forgotten by ground-handling staff at the airport. The coffin is in a big box and no one can miss the box as all the names and details of the airline and the dead man are written on the box."
He said arrangements were being made to repatriate the body on an Air India Express flight on Sunday.
20/02/12 VM Sathish/Emirates24/7

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