Hundreds of people have been left in mourning after the Air India plane disaster, when more than 240 people lost their lives on Thursday.
But a north-west London The community is feeling the most impact, about 4,000 miles from the Ahmedabad accident site.
Twenty of the victims have the same relationship in the same temple HengaIts leader has said, “Whatever has happened with many families, is trying to come with him. Among those killed in the Dreamliner disaster are a mother and father who lost her son, a pilot in a plane crash in France a few years ago.
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Members of the British Gujarati community are gathering at the International Siddhram Shakti Kendra to pay their honors and mourning, which is just collided with high street.
Talk to IndependentSpiritual leader Shri Rajrajeshwar Guruji described the accident as a “heavy loss”, saying that he personally knew about 20 people who rode on a doom Indian water flight. Boeing 787 Dreamliner Crazing the runway at Ahmedabad Airport soon after cleaning the runway, with a huge fireball, it collided with dozens of doctors at a medical college.
Sri Guruji, who belongs to the Gujruti region, but has lived in Britain since 1993, said: “I have good communication with the people there, and I woke up to see so many calls. There were messages to say that there was an accident.
“My priests who work here in the temple a day before yesterday flew from Gatwick on the same flight from Ahmedabad. He was on the same plane that had crashed but was traveling on the way.”
After calling his colleague to his colleague, who assured him that he was safe, Sri Guruji started receiving endless phone calls from both people on the ground in India, and had to go to his worshipers who lost loved ones or people had to go to flight.
“I had a message from a Gujarati police officer who said that former Chief Minister Vijay Rupani was on it, he has previously worshiped here. I was then given a list of people on the flight from the Indian police and I was checking the names, and I could see that some of them were familiar.
He said, “Then people kept calling me to say that ‘so and so were on flight’ and so I eventually knew 20 people who were lost,” he said.
He then spent the rest of his day speaking to the families of the victims on the phone, and contacted his broad relatives to inform them and offer them support and comfort.
“A family, they have lost a couple, both a mother and father have died. A few years ago, three or four years ago, his son died. He was a pilot, his flight crashed in France. It was a passenger jet and he was a pilot. Yesterday, his parents were traveling back from India and both have left.”
According to Hindu beliefs, the process of cremation and the shatter of ash is a part of freeing the soul and bringing peace to the deceased. But the nature of the accident means that the bodies of some victims cannot be found.
Police officers on the ground in Ahmedabad have described the scene as “anarchy” to Shri Guruji in his call, and he is in close contact with relatives and spiritual leaders in Gujurti.
Naveen Shah, a retired architect and former labor president of the London Assembly, worships at the Harrow Temple. He was afraid of the accident that destroyed a densely populated area near his hometown.
Born and raised at a distance of less than 10 miles from the accident site, Mr. Shah is familiar with the region. He stayed there for 15 years before going to the UK and shared his concerns that the number of dead on the ground is unknown.
“We know that the plane crashed in a housing complex called Meghani Nagar, but I think there was a slum, a bent area in which poor people lived. If they were erased, it is another factor that worries me deeply,” he said.
For the first time, Mr. Shah received a call from his nephew at 8.30 am, which stays just four miles from the airport, which informed him about the tragedy.
Soon after, he realized that most of the slain people had a relationship with areas such as Harrow, Brent and Lessaster, and that their community would be inconsistently affected.
“We used to pray in the temple last night and I met a 20 -year -old young man, whose grandparents fell into the plane,” said Mr. Shah.
“I was speechless, I did not have heart to express my feelings-I broke too much. A young woman lost her father-in-law and she was crying. All this is very raw at this time.”
In the coming days, services and prayers are held at the Harrow Center, including an inter-confidence ceremony on Saturday.
