Student's Body To Be Flown Back When Shelling Stops: Karnatakas Bommai
NDTV
Naveen Shekharappa, 21, was killed in Russian shelling on a government building in Kharkiv last Tuesday.
The body of Naveen Shekharappa, the Indian student killed in Russian bombing in Ukraine last week, is in a mortuary in Kharkiv and will be flown back when the shelling stops, Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai said today, quoting the Foreign Minister.
"The External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar has informed us that Naveen's body has been embalmed and kept in a mortuary in Ukraine. His body will be brought to India once shelling stops there," Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai told reporters.
Naveen Shekharappa, 21, was killed in Russian shelling on a government building in Kharkiv last Tuesday. A student at the Kharkiv National Medical University, he had gone out of his bunker to stock up on supplies before leaving the city and was standing in a queue outside a grocery store when he was killed.
Naveen's father Shekharappa Gyanagowda had told NDTV last Wednesday that he was assured by the government his body would be brought home "within two days". He said he had requested both Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the Karnataka Chief Minister to help bring his son's body home.
