Indian Airlines cargo package 49590065/ 01/ CCU/DACC, carrying the body of Swaraj Dutta, the lone Bengali tourist who succumbed to injuries received in the terrorist attack at Srinagar, arrived in Kolkata late on Friday evening.

The special flight from Srinagar also brought in 12 other tourists injured in the grenade attack on their tourist bus in Srinagar on Wednesday.

Sudhangshu Seal and Amitava Nandi, MPs who were in Srinagar to attend a Parliamentary Committee meet, accompanied eight relatives of the injured besides a team of six doctors, who reached here in another special flight.

Seal said 82 tourists from the state had faced the attack: “27 persons were injured (and) five were discharged from three Srinagar hospitals after being given first-aid. Twelve of them came with us by the special flight. Dutta’s body (he died on Friday morning) was flown in in another flight and was accompanied by four relatives, who were also injured.”

While three other injured will reach the city by train, two are still being treated in Srinagar, Seal said.

Meanwhile, the airport wore an anxious look as relatives of the injured waited impatiently all the day, as there was no information about the time of the flights’ arrival.

Over two dozen ambulances from various hospitals and institutions were kept ready at the airport’s gate-7, a cargo-exit point.

On arrival, the injured were immediately rushed to city hospitals.

Seal said those among the injured who are yet to receive the compensation package of Rs 5,000 announced by the Jammu and Kashmir government would be handed over the money in due course through representatives of the J-K government.

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