M'lore air crash victims'memorial destroyed

Unknown miscreants demolished the memorial built at the site of the air crash of Air India Express flight IX 812 yesterday.

The Bajpe police, who discovered the incident early yesterday morning, said that rocks were flung by miscreants to shatter the plaques.u00a0


Shattered: The memorial had names of all the 158 passengers andu00a0six
crewmembers. It was installed on an elevated structure at theu00a0crash site

Six black granite slabs with the names of all the 158 ill-fated passengers and six crew members had been installed on an elevated structure at the crash site, and was unveiled on July 27 by the union civil aviation secretary, M M Nambiar.

Perhaps, the authorities may consider erecting the structure again by providing a protective shield to the memorial.