South Sudanese student's parents bury him in the city, ask for pictures of Rly's accident | Mumbai News

Mumbai: South Sudanese student Jowahir Abdallah (24 years old), who had lost both her legs after falling off a bandwagon last week, succumbed to multiple failures. organs at the Sion Hospital on Wednesday.

Close friends said that the railways should increase the time for long-distance trains so that pbadengers can get in and out without risking their lives. Her family decided to bury her in Chandanwadi's crematorium that evening and not to return home with the body.

Abdallah and five of his friends had taken Koyna Express from Miraj to travel to Dadar. They then had to go to the airport to go home. This would have been the first time in four years that Abdallah would have seen his family in South Sudan.

"Abdallah suffered severe bladder injury and pelvic fracture, in addition to amputation of both legs.He died at 1:10 of sepsis after polytrauma of amputation", said Dr. Rajesh Dere who performed the autopsy. The hospital in Sion has waived its hospital bills.

Abdallah was the youngest of the six siblings. A brilliant student, she was awarded a government-sponsored scholarship at a technology institute in Sangli. "Jowahir was particularly close to our mother.We did not inform our mother of Jowahir's state after the incident, but we were forced to give her news of the disappearance," she said. said Dr. Haram Mustafa, the sister of Abdallah, from South Sudan.

Mustafa, a gynecologist, is six months pregnant. The three brothers of Abdallah live in different parts of Africa. Another sister, Zenab, is studying pediatrics at a college in Ethiopia. Death comes as another blow to the brothers and sisters who lost their father on Sunday.

Mustafa stated that she was not aware of how the accident occurred but that she had the intention to find out. "We want to watch the CCTV videos and get to the bottom of the case, and if we find something suspicious, we will not stay silent," she told TOI. Mustafa and their family friends arrived on July 15 and alternated between sleeping in the hospital and in a hotel in Zion. Sarah James, a childhood friend of Abdallah, a college graduate from Noida, said the two had spoken on a Sunday. "We discussed what we would do after she recovered, she even smiled at me and took a picture so I could send it to her mother. I did not mention the death of his father, "James told TOI.

The GRP Dadar will record a case of accidental death. "Koyna Express has a three-minute stop period that is sufficient to get off.Pbadengers must avoid getting off a running train," said a Central Railway official. (Entries by Nitasha Natu, Manthan Mehta and Sumitra Deb Roy)