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Iranian woman spent 3 days at Mumbai airport
Iranian woman spent 3 days at Mumbai airport, An Iranian national was robbed of her valuables in Bengaluru and her predicament became compounded as she lost her phone while making her way to Mumbai.
An Iranian national was robbed of her valuables in Bengaluru and her predicament became compounded as she lost her phone while making her way to Mumbai. The worst situation arose when she had to spend three nights outside the Mumbai international airport.
A trip to India turned out to be a nightmare for Alinejad Kohnehshahri Mina (35), and her son, Mohammadanial (5) landed in India on February 20 to attend an English speaking course in Bengaluru. Mina, a beautician in the Iranian capital of Tehran, first arrived in Mumbai by Iran Air's flight IR 810 and departed for Bengaluru on the same day. She stayed in the southern city at a paying guest facility in RT Nagar.
Within a week, Mina said, three locals robbed her handbag containing all her valuables and majority of cash, leaving her and her son stranded in an unknown city. Somehow, she managed to contact a friend, who arranged for a bus ticket to Mumbai and sent it to her via email. Misfortune struck her again on this journey when Mina lost her mobile phone. She came to Mumbai on March 10, sans any means of contacting anyone and with little money. She has been shifting from one end to other of the T2 terminal to escape attention. On the third day, they tracked her continued presence in the terminal when the whole story of her predicament came out with help of a Persian speaking member of the Iranian embassy and Iran Air.
Both arranged for her to go back home. "I had my return ticket from T2 on March 20. So I had decided that I would stay at the airport till then." Mina fed her child using the little money she was left with. The woman kept changing places in the arrivals section and, hence, wasn't spotted easily. However, she confined herself to the east side of the area since Thursday and got noticed," said a security official from T2.
Mina and her son went back home by IR 811 departing for Tehran on Friday itself ending her ordeal but not without bitter memories of garden city of Bengaluru which has been a shocker to every one.
