Sumera Khan wanted to go for a picnic to Lonavla. But she changed her mind and instead headed for her maika (parents’ place) in the pink city on April 23.
MUMBAI: Sumera Khan wanted to go for a picnic to Lonavla. But she changed her mind and instead headed for her maika (parents’ place) in the pink city on April 23.
On Tuesday night, Sumera became the lone victim from Mumbai in the serial blasts that devastated Jaipur on Tuesday. Her two younger sisters died too.
Sumera (26) lived with her husband Mustafa (30) and children Ibrahim (9) and Subana (4) in the first floor of Kalyan Mansion on SVP Road at Dongri. Mustafa runs a jewellery shop in Oberoi Shopping Centre along with his father Abdul Razzak Khan. His two brothers also stay nearby.
Dr Tasneem Ansari whose son studies in the same school as Sumera’s children is in shock. She was the one who had to break the news to Sumera’s family. “I can’t believe she has been killed in a terror attack. I went to her place around 1 am on Tuesday when I came to know that she had died in the blast. Mustafa was unaware of her death. Her father-in-law fainted when he heard the news,” she said.
Dr Ansari, who runs a private clinic near their place, says Sumera was very happy after Ibrahim secured 82% in his Std V exam. “She had left Ibrahim at home with her parents and gone to the market in a rickshaw with her sisters and Subana. As soon as the sisters got off from the rickshaw the bomb exploded. All the three died on the spot. Subana was in the rickshaw so she managed to survive,” said Dr Ansari.
Sumera’s parents have lost all their three daughters, only their son is left behind.
The mood was sombre in Kalyan Mansion when DNA visited the Khans’ home on Wednesday evening.
While the Khans left for Jaipur early on Wednesday, the blast was the topic of conversation in the building. Most of the residents are in the business of fruits and zari. “Usually at this time, our building turns into a playground as children shout and play. But today everyone is mourning Sumera bhabhi’s death,” said a neighbour, Farid Qureshi.
Another neigbour Sayyed Nusrat said, “I saw Sumera bhabhi only when she came to drop the children for the school bus. She didn’t interact much with the neighbours.”
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