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Government must step up, says family of crash victims
Western Daily Press
|June 17, 2025
THE family of three Britons who were killed in the Air India plane crash are calling on the UK Government to provide more support on the ground in India.
Akeel Nanabawa, his wife Hannaa Vorajee and their four-year-old daughter Sara Nanabawa were returning home to Gloucester when they died.
The Boeing 787 Dreamliner crashed shortly after take-off on Thursday in what is one of the deadliest plane accidents in terms of the number of British nationals killed. The aircraft struck a medical college hostel in Ahmedabad, killing 241 of the 242 people on board.
The sole surviving passenger was Briton Vishwash Kumar Ramesh.
Air India said the plane was carrying 169 Indian nationals, 53 Britons, seven Portuguese nationals and one Canadian.
Mr Nanabawa ran a recruitment firm, while his wife volunteered at an Islamic school in Gloucester where they lived. Members of their family have flown from the UK to Ahmedabad following last week’s tragedy.
This story is from the June 17, 2025 edition of Western Daily Press.
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