Nidhi Chaphekar, a 40-year-old Jet Airways flight attendant, sat bloodied and dazed, her yellow uniform shredded from the force of the first blast of yesterday's deadly terror attacks in Brussels.
As she looked up, another woman took her picture.
The image of the mother of two from Mumbai, India, spread through social media Tuesday and onto front pages of newspapers around the world Wednesday as one of the most iconic images of the horror in Brussels.
It was that haunting image that reached her family in India first.
"We were searching through the Internet to try and get details of the blasts when we saw the pics," her brother-in-law Nilesh Chaphekar told The Associated Press in a phone interview. "The first reaction was 'she's alive. By God's grace she is alive.'"
Her family, including her husband, 11-year-old daughter and 14-year-old son, is now trying to get to Brussels to be with her.
23/03/16 Natalie DiBlasio/USA Today
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As she looked up, another woman took her picture.
The image of the mother of two from Mumbai, India, spread through social media Tuesday and onto front pages of newspapers around the world Wednesday as one of the most iconic images of the horror in Brussels.
It was that haunting image that reached her family in India first.
"We were searching through the Internet to try and get details of the blasts when we saw the pics," her brother-in-law Nilesh Chaphekar told The Associated Press in a phone interview. "The first reaction was 'she's alive. By God's grace she is alive.'"
Her family, including her husband, 11-year-old daughter and 14-year-old son, is now trying to get to Brussels to be with her.
23/03/16 Natalie DiBlasio/USA Today
