Mangalore: For the family of Mohammed Rafeeq in Pipla Borel, West Bengal, the agonizing wait for the body of their 19-year-old son, who died in an accident in Mangalore on Wednesday, has just become longer.
The cancellation of an Air India flight to Bagdogra from Delhi on Saturday raised fears if the family will be able to have a final glimpse of the body as it may be decomposed by the time it reaches them. Khairul Haq, 19, died on Wednesday after falling into a lift pit from a height of 90ft at a construction site.
Sources said the body has been kept in the air cargo complex in Delhi and not shifted to a morgue. And there are doubts over the body being flown out on Sunday. The body was sent by an AI flight to Delhi at 1pm on Friday.
A distraught Rafeeq said: "When we almost reached the airport, we received information that the body wouldn't arrive today. The airport is 130km away from our village. At 12.02pm, we received an SMS "Flight no AI 879 arrival at Bagdogra 13:00 hrs tomorrow Sunday''. Haq, the eldest of 10 children of Rafeeq and Bibi Sunera, came to Mangalore five months ago and was earning Rs 8,000 per month at a construction site.
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The cancellation of an Air India flight to Bagdogra from Delhi on Saturday raised fears if the family will be able to have a final glimpse of the body as it may be decomposed by the time it reaches them. Khairul Haq, 19, died on Wednesday after falling into a lift pit from a height of 90ft at a construction site.
Sources said the body has been kept in the air cargo complex in Delhi and not shifted to a morgue. And there are doubts over the body being flown out on Sunday. The body was sent by an AI flight to Delhi at 1pm on Friday.
A distraught Rafeeq said: "When we almost reached the airport, we received information that the body wouldn't arrive today. The airport is 130km away from our village. At 12.02pm, we received an SMS "Flight no AI 879 arrival at Bagdogra 13:00 hrs tomorrow Sunday''. Haq, the eldest of 10 children of Rafeeq and Bibi Sunera, came to Mangalore five months ago and was earning Rs 8,000 per month at a construction site.
24/08/14 Times of India/Stanley Pinto/Times of India
