new Delhi: The mortal remains of Naveen Shekharappa, a fourth-year student studying medicine in Ukraine, will be brought back to Karnataka on Monday (March 21).
Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai said Naveen’s body would reach the Bengaluru airport on Monday.
#Update , Karnataka CM Basavaraj Bommai corrected his previous tweet and clarified that the body of Kharkiv Medical University final year medical student Naveen Shekharappa Gnanagoudaram, who was killed in a shelling attack. #UkraineWill be brought to Bengaluru airport on March 21. pic.twitter.com/EjLxRMaAJL
— ANI (@ANI) 18 March 2022
Naveen, a native of Chalgeri in Haveri district, was in the fourth year of his course at Kharkiv Medical College. He was in a bunker in Kharkiv and had gone out in the morning to exchange currency and have some food when he was killed in a shelling attack.
Earlier, the chief minister had said that Naveen’s body has been decapitated and will be brought back to India as soon as the shelling stops.
Paying tribute to the deceased, CM Bommai handed over a check of Rs 25 lakh to the bereaved family and assured a job to a family member.
Meanwhile, speaking at the UN Security Council briefing on Ukraine, India’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations TS Tirumurti said that apart from evacuating 22,500 Indians from the crisis-hit country, India has assisted citizens of 18 other countries.
“We appreciate the convenience extended by the Ukrainian authorities and its neighboring countries in ensuring their safe return,” news agency ANI quoted the top envoy as saying.
We have ensured the safe return of about 22,500 Indians from here #Ukraine, assisted citizens of 18 other countries. We appreciate the convenience provided by Ukrainian authorities and its neighboring countries in ensuring their safe return: India’s Amb TS Tirumurti at UN emergency meeting pic.twitter.com/2UiKxmUQVY
— ANI (@ANI) 17 March 2022
“India is deeply concerned at the current situation, which has progressively worsened since the start of hostilities. Civilians have died as a result of the conflict; The displacement of thousands of people internally and the outflow of more than three million refugees to neighboring countries. The humanitarian situation has worsened, especially in conflict zones,” Tirumurthy said.
Today’s meeting of the United Nations Security Council #UkraineI made the following statement pic.twitter.com/HP0NIcA9XR
— with PR/TS Tirumurti (@ambtstirumurti) 17 March 2022