Mumbai: Turkey President Tayyip Erdogan said soon after the Istanbul attack that the "bombs could have gone off at any airport in any city around the world".
On March 22 this year, it was the turn of Zaventem airport at Brussels. Among those who got caught in the bombings were Nidhi Chapekar and Amit Motwani, who were walking towards an exit gate.
Amit, 28, an in-flight supervisor of Jet Airways and Nidhi, 42, his senior colleague and in-flight manager, were grievously injured in the Brussels attacks that killed 34 and wounded 230.
Five minutes after the blasts at Zaventem airport, an injured Amit had made a call from his cellphone to his Mumbai office saying: "There has been a blast."
"That was all he said. Within half-an-hour, we confirmed the news and informed their families though it took longer to identify the hospitals they had been taken to. But Amit's call had been our beacon - it meant we could hope," said a Jet Airways employee.
Life is yet to get back to normal for Amit and Nidhi. Nidhi's husband and brother-in-law were with her in Brussels for weeks as were Amit's two brothers.
Amit's brothers brought him back home on June 7 from Brussels where he spent two-and-a-half months in hospital. He is now undergoing treatment for an injured eye at Mumbai's Breach Candy Hospital.
Nidhi, whose picture with her torn jacket and bloodied face became an enduring image of the Brussels blasts, returned home in Mumbai on May 7. A mother of two, she is still being treated for burn marks and is undergoing physiotherapy for a broken ankle.
29/06/16 Samyabrata Ray Goswami/Telegraph
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On March 22 this year, it was the turn of Zaventem airport at Brussels. Among those who got caught in the bombings were Nidhi Chapekar and Amit Motwani, who were walking towards an exit gate.
Amit, 28, an in-flight supervisor of Jet Airways and Nidhi, 42, his senior colleague and in-flight manager, were grievously injured in the Brussels attacks that killed 34 and wounded 230.
Five minutes after the blasts at Zaventem airport, an injured Amit had made a call from his cellphone to his Mumbai office saying: "There has been a blast."
"That was all he said. Within half-an-hour, we confirmed the news and informed their families though it took longer to identify the hospitals they had been taken to. But Amit's call had been our beacon - it meant we could hope," said a Jet Airways employee.
Life is yet to get back to normal for Amit and Nidhi. Nidhi's husband and brother-in-law were with her in Brussels for weeks as were Amit's two brothers.
Amit's brothers brought him back home on June 7 from Brussels where he spent two-and-a-half months in hospital. He is now undergoing treatment for an injured eye at Mumbai's Breach Candy Hospital.
Nidhi, whose picture with her torn jacket and bloodied face became an enduring image of the Brussels blasts, returned home in Mumbai on May 7. A mother of two, she is still being treated for burn marks and is undergoing physiotherapy for a broken ankle.
29/06/16 Samyabrata Ray Goswami/Telegraph
