The body of Infosys employee Raghavendran Ganeshan who died in the terrorist attack in Brussels last week arrived in Chennai yesterday.
The body was taken to the home of his relatives in a Chennai suburb where the last rites were performed.
“It is with deep regret that we confirm the passing of our colleague Raghavendran Ganeshan in the terrible attack in Brussels,” the software giant wrote on Twitter late Monday.
“Our thoughts and prayers are with Raghavendran’s family and with those who were injured or lost a loved one in these attacks,” added the Bengaluru-based software firm in another tweet.
External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj tweeted that the 31-year-old, who had been working in Brussels for four years, was killed in the blast at Maalbeek metro station.
“Unfortunately, he was travelling in the same coach of the metro in which the suicide bomber blew himself up,” Swaraj wrote.
His brother, who is studying in Germany, arrived shortly after his brother went missing and was joined by their uncle and parents. The Belgian authorities, who worked through the Easter holiday weekend, confirmed that Ganeshan was among the dead, using finger print analysis and DNA tests from a cheek swab taken from his brother.
Ganeshan’s wife Vaishali Raghavendran and their child are based in India.
Raghu Kumar, a relative said: “The (Indian) embassy people and Infosys company have extended their co-operation throughout the process. We are very unlucky, we lost a great guy.”
“For our embassy, it’s a very sad day,” Manjeev Singh Puri, India’s ambassador to Belgium and the EU, said.
On Monday, Belgian officials said the death toll from the March 22 Islamic State bombings had climbed to 35 after four people died in hospital.
A Jet Airways flight attendant who was pictured covered in dust and blood after the attacks at the airport, making newspaper front pages around the world, is currently recovering in hospital.
A haunting image of Nidhi Chaphekar, from Mumbai, showing her yellow jacket torn, became one of the most widely published images of the bombings.