From Lahore and karachi, a trauma trip

Umruddin (65) had boarded the train with his 25-year-old son Yunus and brother-in-law Kamruddin while the rest of the family decided to stay on in Delhi for a few more days for sight-seeing. “I wish they had stayed back too, and this day would have never come. Today, we identified Yunus’ body here. His father is still untraceable. I have looked everywhere, scanned all lists, called up Lahore to find out if he managed to get there somehow,” said Hukumuddin. Yunus had got engaged last November.

The only consolation for the family is that Kamruddin, a dairy owner, has survived and is now recuperating at Delhi’s Safdarjung Hospital.

When the dizzying rounds of the mortuary tire them, they dial numbers to various offices in Pakistan and Delhi for permission to take Yunus’ body home.

His mother, struck with the double tragedy of losing her husband and only son, is beyond consolation. “Her elder son Mustafa was murdered last year. Where has the goodness of the world gone?” asks Hukumuddin before dialling another number.

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