'If at all there is a God, for me it is Neerja'

February 19, 2016 13:36

"I was in the sixth row of the economy class and vividly remember how they shot her at point blank range in front of me.

''I was shocked to see her dying.

"Whenever I think of that moment, I wonder: Is this humanity? What has a 23 year old done to deserve this? She was only trying to help people."

Dr Kishore Murthy was just 31 years old when he boarded a Pan Am flight to the United States on September 5, 1986. That was the flight that would be hijacked by Libyan terrorists at the Karachi International Airport. The flight that had a 23-year-old air hostess, Neerja Bhanot.

Read the eyewitness account here.

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