Final selfie of doctor couple goes viral after Ahmedabad crash kills entire family
Ahmedabad: A final selfie taken aboard Air India Flight AI-171 has gone viral, capturing a young doctor couple from Rajasthan and their three children just moments before the plane crashed seconds after take-off from Ahmedabad. All five members of the family perished in the tragedy, along with 236 others on board.
Dr Komi Vyas, a medical professional from Udaipur, had recently quit her job to join her husband, Dr Prateek Joshi, in London. Dr Joshi had been working in the UK and had returned to India just two days earlier to accompany his family on the journey back.
"They left for Ahmedabad yesterday to take the flight to London. Prateek had come here just two days ago to take his wife and children with him. Several other members of both families went to see them off," said Dr Joshi’s cousin Nayan.
The family, including twin sons Nakul and Pradyut (5) and daughter Miraya (8), boarded the ill-fated flight bound for London Gatwick. However, the aircraft failed to gain altitude and crashed into a residential building 32 seconds after take-off, erupting into flames. Of the 242 passengers and crew on board, only one person survived.
The image of the family, smiling and seated inside the aircraft, has since circulated widely on social media, a heartbreaking visual of lives filled with hope and anticipation, cut short in an instant.
What was meant to be the beginning of a new life abroad has now become a symbol of profound loss, with the final photograph standing as a tragic reminder of the fragility of life.
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Niqab incident: Nitish Kumar perhaps revealing his true colours, says J-K CM
Srinagar (PTI): Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Wednesday criticised his Bihar counterpart over the niqab incident and said that Nitish Kumar might be slowly revealing his true nature.
"Nitish Kumar, who was once considered a secular leader, may be slowly showing his true colours," Abdullah told reporters here on the sidelines of a function.
Abdullah said Kumar removing the face veil of a Muslim woman doctor was wrong and cannot be justified by any means.
"We have seen this kind of incident here several years ago. Have you forgotten how Mehbooba Mufti removed the burqa of a legitimate voter inside a polling station? That act was wrong, and this act (of Kumar) is also wrong.
"If the (Bihar) chief minister did not want to hand over the order to her (Muslim woman), they could have kept her aside. However, to humiliate her like this is totally wrong," the Jammu and Kashmir chief minister said.
Kumar stirred a huge controversy after he removed the face veil of a Muslim woman at a function earlier this week.
