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Ill-fated Lion Air remains; a mystery at Jaffna Municipal Council grounds
View(s):Vithusalini was barely 3-years-old when her father set off on the fateful journey to Colombo. Little did Vithusalini know that the light of
A woman looks for clues of a loved one who died on the ill-fated Lion Air
doom would take away her father, Kirubaran and two of her uncles, Senthilvel and Paheerathan forever. Fifteen years later, Vithusalini, now a young woman of 18, is looking for answers among the exhibits of the Lion Air plane crash victims.
Manjuladevi from Point Pedro is also among the numerous visitors looking for belongings of their loved ones. Her mother, Mallikadevi was on the fateful flight with her brother, who was to go to Saudi Arabia for employment.
The flight was shot down by the LTTE, shortly after it took off from the Palaly airport on September 9, 1998. The Sri Lanka Navy salvaged the wreckage of the flight last year. Clothes and parts of skeletal remains recovered from the site is on display at Jaffna Municipal Council grounds till today evening.