Indian expat loses 2-year-old daughter in Air India Express crash

Indian expat loses 2-year-old daughter in Air India Express crash

This is the final photo Indian expat in Dubai Murtaza Faisal clicked with his two-year-old daughter Ayesha Dua before she boarded the ill-fated Air India Express flight that crash-landed in Kerala's Kozhikode.

Ayesha - who had travelled to Kerala with her mother Sumayya Tasneemi - succumbed to injuries at a hospital in Calicut.

Ayesha was among the four children killed in the crash.

A grieving Murtaza left for Kerala on Saturday.

The family was living in a villa in Al Rashidiya, Dubai. Ayesha was known to be a bubbly toddler who got along well with everyone in the neighbourhood.

The mother and daughter had arrived on a visit visa on March 1, but were stuck in the UAE due to Covid-19-triggered travel suspension.

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