List of Indians on ill-fated Kenyan plane

NEW DELHI: Government on Sunday released the names of 14 Indian passengers believed to be on the Kenya Airways flight that crashed in Cameroon with 114 people aboard.

According to the External Affairs Ministry release, the passengers on the flight from Doula to Nairobi have been identified as:

1. Nigli Shirly
2. Nigili Kewin Joseph
3.George Joseph Kocherry
4. Maria Joseph
5. Gracey Manuel
6. Aman Gaur
7. Prakam Sundaraman
8. Mrs Bhagya Madhusudhan
9. Ms Poojitha Madhusudhan
10. Mr Madhusudhan
11. Mary Ruby
12. Amol Chauhan
13. Mr Nalakath Gireesan.
14. Mrs Meera Shah

Those who boarded from Douala are: Mr Madhusudan, Mrs Bhagya Madhusudan, Ms Poojitha Madhusudan, Mr Aman Gaur, Mr Nalakath Gireesan, Mr Amol Chauhan, Mrs Meera Shah, Mr Prakash Sundararaman,

The Kenyan Airways identified one Mr Deep Indeer as among the dead who had reportedly boarded from Abidjan.

Meanwhile, an air and ground operation by a French Army and Cameroonian search team continued on Sunday to look for the wreckage of the Kenyan airliner which went missing shortly after take-off on Saturday.

The search area, 80 nautical miles south east of Douala, is about 150 ground kilometres.

Besides the 15 Indians, those who were killed in the crash included Cameroon (37), South Africa(7), Ivory Coast and Nigeria (6 each), China and Britain (5 each), Niger (3), Central African Republic, Equitorial Guinea, Democratic Republic of Congo (2 each), Mauritania, Korea, Switzerland, Mali, Sweden, Ghana, Comoros, Mauritius, Senegal, Congo, Egypt, Tanzania, US and Burkina Faso (1 each). 

There were also nine Kenyans who formed the crew.