Gathered together via Zoom, friends and relatives of Wahida and
For many who lost loved ones in the
The Rahmaans, married 53 years, were among 97 people killed when the
'The most instinctual human response to grief is to hold on to somebody and hug somebody,' said
'Covid-19has stripped us from that.'
This handout picture taken on
Instead, Rahman watched the burial of his 80-year-old father and mother - who would have turned 75 on Friday from his
Like many other nations,
Zoom's video conferencing platform on Friday showed a grid of grief-stricken faces with the largest frame showing the funeral in
Rahman said the delay in identifying the bodies added to the family's grief, discovering first from local television that their mother's body had been identified, which he described as a 'gut punch'.
'And you don't know how to recover from that,' he said.
The family chose not to hold a traditional large funeral because of Covid-19, in a country where the disease first appeared slowly but is now picking up pace.
Over 76,000 cases have been reported with more than 1,500 deaths in
The Rahmaans took PK-8303 to visit their son in
Investigators have uncovered the Airbus' black box and cockpit voice recorder, and authorities hope to release initial findings on
During the ill-fated flight, the pilots made a first landing attempt and the plane briefly touched the ground multiple times, before attempting a second try.
Experts say pilots likely tried to land the Airbus without lowering the wheels, damaging both engines so badly they soon failed.
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