He came to fulfil his wife’s final wish but never made back home | AI Crash - video Dailymotion

Arjun Manubhai Patolia came to India from London to fulfil his wife’s dying wish.

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00:00This father of two young girls came to India to fulfill his wife's final wish.

00:04But he never made it back home.

00:05Arjun Manubhai Patolia's wife Bharti died of cancer just weeks ago on May 26 in London.

00:11Before Bharti passed away, she had asked her husband to take her ashes back to her homeland.

00:15Arjun had moved to the UK at the age of 20.

00:17There, he ran a furniture shop and met Bharti.

00:20He worked as an accountant.

00:21To fulfill her last wish, Arjun immersed her ashes in the Narmada river at the native village

00:25of Vaidya in Amrilli district, Gujarat.

00:28After completing the rituals, Patolia was to return home to his two daughters who had

00:32remained in the UK.

00:33Arjun's mother who lives in Surat is devastated, having lost her son in the Air India crash

00:38just days after her daughter-in-law's death.

00:40She has given her DNA sample to help identify his body so it could be brought back to Vaidya

00:44for the last rites.

00:46The two daughters, just eight and four, were still mourning the loss of their mother.

00:49And now, this tragedy has hit them.

00:52The girls are currently in the care of their uncle in London.