New Delhi: The body of Naveen Shekharappa, the fourth-year student pursuing medicine in Ukraine, will be brought back to Karnataka on Monday (March 21).
Naveen’s body will arrive at Bengaluru airport on Monday, Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai said.
Naveen, a native of Chalageri in the Haveri district, was in the fourth year of his course in the Kharkiv medical college. He was in a bunker in Kharkiv and had gone out in the morning to exchange currency and to fetch some food when he was killed in a shelling attack.
Earlier, the chief minister had said that Naveen’s body has been embalmed and would be brought back to India as soon as the shelling stops.
Paying tributes to the deceased, CM Bommai had given a cheque of Rs 25 lakh to the bereaved family and assured a job to one of the family members.
Meanwhile, speaking at the UN Security Council briefing on Ukraine, India’s Permanent Representative to the UN Ambassador TS Tirumurti said that apart from evacuating 22,500 Indian from the trouble-torn country, India has assisted nationals from 18 other countries.
“We appreciate the facilitation rendered by Ukraine authorities and its neighbouring countries in ensuring their safe return,” news agency ANI quoted the top envoy as saying.
“India continues to remain deeply concerned at the ongoing situation, which has progressively deteriorated since the beginning of the hostilities. The conflict has resulted in the death of civilians; displacement of thousands of people internally and the outflow of more than three million refugees to neighbouring countries. The humanitarian situation has worsened, particularly in the conflict zones,” Tirumurti added.