'We don't look at the sky anymore': The Air India crash victims who were not on the plane
Key takeaways
- The photographs are the first thing Prahlod Thakur sees when he wakes up.
- They hang on the bright green peeling walls of his small Ahmedabad home, among religious icons, brass vessels and fading family portraits.
- Both of them were in the BJ Medical College hostel complex, less than 2km (1.2 miles) from the Ahmedabad airport, when an Air India plane crashed into it in June last year.
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Zoya Mateen Ahmedabad Zoya Mateen Prahlod Thakur's wife and two-year-old granddaughter were killed when an Air India plane crashed into a medical college in Ahmedabad last year Warning: The story contains details some readers might find distressing. The photographs are the first thing Prahlod Thakur sees when he wakes up.
They hang on the bright green peeling walls of his small Ahmedabad home, among religious icons, brass vessels and fading family portraits. One frame holds the face of his wife, Sarlaben. Another shows his granddaughter, Aadhya, wearing a white dress and smiling.
Both of them were in the BJ Medical College hostel complex, less than 2km (1.2 miles) from the Ahmedabad airport, when an Air India plane crashed into it in June last year. There were 260 victims - 241 were on the plane. Sarlaben and Aadhya were among the 19 killed on the ground.