Vijayawada: A doctor from Guntur district was among the 157 passengers and crew who died in the Ethiopian Airlines plane crash on Sunday.
Nukavarapu Manisha from Ungutur village, Amaravati mandal in Guntur district was the youngest daughter of Nukavarapu Venkates-wara Rao and Bharati.
She did her MBBS in Guntur Medical College four years ago and went to the US for further studies. She lived in Tennessee in the United States and worked as resident physician in the Department of Internal Medicine at Quillen College of Medicine, East Tennessee State University.
She was flying to Nairobi to be with her sister Lavanya who had given birth to triplets.
Her parents were also visiting her sister in Nairobi.
Manisha’s family has been living in Navabha-rath Nagar, Guntur, for the past few years.
According to reports, external affairs minister Sushma Swaraj responded to the tweet of Manisha’s cousin, Avinash Yaganti, saying that she has asked India’s High Commissio-ner in Kenya, Rahul Chhabra, to provide all help and assistance to those waiting to receive the bodies of their loved ones.
Ethiopian Airlines has also said forensic investigations and identification of the identities of the victims will be done as quickly as possible.
A relative of Manisha, N Visweswara Rao, who lives in Guntur, told this newspaper: “Manisha was a very intelligent student and always achieved her goals.”
She studied in Guntur from the seventh standard and her father Venkateswara Rao is a realtor, he added. The Nairobi-bound Boeing 737 crashed six minutes after take-off from Addis Ababa in the early hours of Sunday. Four Indians are said to have been among those killed.
