Fujairah: Hundreds of people, most of them strangers, gathered on Sunday evening to bid farewell to a 13-year-old Indian boy who died in the recent Fujairah accident, becoming the family he could not have beside him at his final farewell.
Aatif Mohmmed Imran Mansur, from Gujarat, was visiting the UAE with his parents and elder sister when the tragedy struck.
His father, Imran Ayyub Mansoor Ayyub Ibrahim Mansur, mother, Sabina Mohmmed Imran Mansur, and 15-year-old sister, Sarmin Imran Mansur, remain in hospital and are unaware of his death. Relatives decided to go ahead with the funeral without waiting for them because of their health conditions.
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Only two uncles, who travelled from India, were there to say goodbye on behalf of his family, along with a handful of people close to the family in the UAE.
Farewell among strangers
Aatif's uncles finalised the funeral arrangements on Sunday evening, and the details were shared in WhatsApp groups associated with the graveyard. Gulf News also published an online report on his funeral as soon as the details were announced.
What followed, according to a social worker who has been supporting the families, was a remarkable show of solidarity.
