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Missing Infosys employee dead: Indian Embassy
New Delhi/Brussels, Mar 28 (IBNS): India's ambassador to Belgium on Monday confirmed that the Infosys employee, missing since the Brussels terror attacks last Tuesday, is dead, media reports said.
According to reports, his body was found by Belgian authorities in the metro train at Maalbeek station where one of the bombs went off.
"What we dreaded the most has unfortunately come true. Belgian authorities informed the Indian embassy that Raghavendran Ganeshan was identified among the dead today. The body will be transported back to India via Amsterdam later this evening. We extend our sincerest condolences to his family," Indian Ambassador to Belgium, Luxembourg and the EU, Manjeev Singh Puri, was quoted as saying by media.
Earlier External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj had tweeted that the missing employee was "travelling in the metro" when he made his last call.
Raghavendran Ganesh, originally from Bangalore, has been working for four years in the Belgian capital. His brother has reached Brussels and is being assisted by the embassy there to locate Ganesh, the Foreign Minister said.
Nearly 30 people died and close to 300 were injured after the Brussels airport and a metro station were bombed. Two brothers carried out the suicide bombings at the airport and metro, Belgian officials said. A massive search is being carried out to find the third suspect.
Two Indians working for Jet Airways - Nidhi Chaphekar and Amit Motwani - were injured in the explosion at the airport. They are recovering in hospital.
The Foreign Minister tweeted on Wednesday that she has been in direct touch with Ganesh's mother in Bengaluru, who reportedly last spoke to the Infosys worker an hour before the terror attacks.
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