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Mangalore crash: Two kids of a family survive the tragedy

Rohan, 13, and Raabiya, 11, are too shattered to even thank their stars for their fortuitous escape from joining their parents and two siblings on the Air India flight which crashed in Mangalore

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Thirteen-year-old Rohan and 11-year-old Raabiya are too shattered to even thank their stars for their fortuitous escape from joining their parents and two siblings on the Air India flight which crashed in Mangalore killing 158 people, including the foursome.

The six-member family and 16 other relatives had to leave for the funeral of the children’s grandmother. But only seven could get tickets on the AI flight.

Mohammad Ziad, a hardware businessman in Dubai and native of Bajpe, decided to fly to Mangalore with his wife Shamina, two of their children, Zainab, 3, and Zubia, 5, and three other relatives — Noor Ahmed, Neha Parveen and Arshad. He made arrangements for his two other children, Rohan and Raabiya, to stay back in Dubai, said Mohammad Sabir, Ziad’s relative. “We are lucky that at least two children of the Ziad family are alive,” he said.

Rohan, a seventh standard student, and Raabiya, a class V student, were informed of the tragedy and hours later they were put on a flight to Goa, from where they travelled by road to reach their maternal uncle, Fayaz’s house in Mangalore on Sunday morning.
In a cruel twist of irony, the children’s arrival coincided with the arrival of Shamina’s body, which was identified by a gold ornament that had her brother, Fayaz’s name inscribed on it. “The bodies of Ziad and the other three are yet to be identified. We want to find them as early as possible as 36 hours have elapsed and the bodies are decomposing,” another relative Anwar said.

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