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Kochi: The body of an Indian student killed in the Christchurch mosque attacks was returned Monday to her grieving family in Kochi, where relatives remembered a bright young woman dedicated to her studies.
Ansi Alibava, 25, was the first of at least five Indians shot dead by a white supremacist in New Zealand on March 15 to be repatriated. Her body was returned at an airport in Kochi in the southern Indian state of Kerala early on Monday, an AFP photographer present said.
The family planned to hold a funeral ceremony for the masters student in their nearby hometown of Kodungallur.
Alibava was praying at the Al Noor Mosque in Christchurch with her husband, Abdul Nazer, when the Australian gunman opened fire on worshippers, killing 43.
Another seven were murdered at a separate mosque when the shooter later turned his weapon on Muslims there in the worst violence of its kind ever seen in New Zealand. (AFP)
Ansi Alibava, 25, was the first of at least five Indians shot dead by a white supremacist in New Zealand on March 15 to be repatriated. Her body was returned at an airport in Kochi in the southern Indian state of Kerala early on Monday, an AFP photographer present said.
The family planned to hold a funeral ceremony for the masters student in their nearby hometown of Kodungallur.
Alibava was praying at the Al Noor Mosque in Christchurch with her husband, Abdul Nazer, when the Australian gunman opened fire on worshippers, killing 43.
Another seven were murdered at a separate mosque when the shooter later turned his weapon on Muslims there in the worst violence of its kind ever seen in New Zealand. (AFP)
