March 25, 2016
NEW DELHI: Raghavendran Ganeshan, an Infosys employee from Bengaluru who
has been missing since Tuesday’s bomb blasts in Brussels, is still untraced
although his phone call records indicate that he was travelling in the city metro at
the time of the explosions. There are unconfirmed reports of his friends getting
messages from him on the social media that he is safe.
“We have tracked his last call in Brussels. He was travelling in the metro rail,”
External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj tweeted on Thursday even as the Indian
mission in Brussels continued its efforts to locate him. Earlier Sushma Swaraj had
also spoken to Ganesh's mother Annapoorani Ganeshan living in Mumbai. His
mother had talked to him a while before the blast. Ganeshan’s wife and son are in
Chennai.
Raghavendran’s younger brother Chandrasekar Ganeshan, who works as a software
engineer in Germany, has reached Brussels to join the search operations.
Raghavendran has been working for a Belgian telecom firm for the past few
years.
According to his family sources, the Infosys engineer was at the Montgomery
metro station just before 9 am on the fateful day. The blast at the Maelbeek
Metro Station that falls after Montgomery occurred a little after 9 am. The blast at
the station that followed the terror attacks at the airport killed 20 people.
Around 200 injured people are in various hospitals and they have not been
identified or their identities not yet disclosed by the hospital authorities.
Hundreds of passengers are still stranded at the airport because of security
checks. The Zaventem airport is yet to be reopened.
Two Jet Airways crew members were also injured in the explosions at the airport.
According to Sushma Swaraj, they are recovering. Meanwhile, the Indian
Government is coordinating with Jet Airways to evacuate the stranded Indian
citizens.