She looked for her husband,wasn’t told he was dead

“Woh theek hain na? Doctors ne abhi kuch kaha toh nahi hai? (Is he fine? Did the doctors say anything?),” she asked.

Her daughter,dressed in a checked skirt and blouse,sat by her mother’s side. Holding her hand. “My father was driving the car,” was all 13-year-old Pooja said.

Lakhandass,a Class IV employee with the Air Force unit at Dhansa More,had left his Dwarka home at 7 am on Sunday to go to Akshardham temple with his colleagues.

“We haven’t told them anything yet. If she breaks down,I won’t be able to handle her,” said Naveen Thakur,Lakhandass’s neighbour.

In another part of the hospital,SS Chakrwarti’s wife,Minakshi,lay on a stretcher. She had accompanied her husband on the trip. Chakrawarti died in the accident.

“She has also received head injuries. She still does not know about her husband’s death,” said her cousin Sandhya Dass.