Chennai: The soft wails of Raghavendran Ganesan’s grandmother crying out “Raju, why have you left me” filled the air in an otherwise dead silent Jyothi Mangala Nagar in Sithalapakkam.
It was 3.30 pm and the ‘body of techie, killed in the Brussels bombing, was to reach his aunt's home here in the next 40 minutes. Gloom had descended on the locality much earlier.
The mortal remains of the lone Indian victim of the March 22 terror attacks in Brussels, Raghavendran Ganeshan, arrived here on Tuesday.
Parents of the deceased, Ganeshan and Annapoorani, and his younger brother, Chandrasekaran, accompanied the remains which arrived from Amsterdam via Dubai.
“It was a bracelet and a ring that he wore which helped the family identify [his body]. The DNA test was necessary because the body was blown to bits,” said Margaret, a neighbour.
