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All the eight persons from the city who had flown for a pilgrimageto Muktinath perished in the crash of Agni Air's Dornier aircraftat Jomsom in Nepal on Monday. The victims of the crash included 14-year-old child actor TaruniSachdev who had acted in the Amitabh-Bachchan-starrer Paa and had become a household face as the ‘Rasna girl' for her‘I love you, Rasna' advertisement. She and her mother Geeta were among the others, including abrahmachari of the city's ISKCON (International Society for KrishnaConsciousness) temple to have lost their lives. All the victimswere associated with ISKCON temple. The names of the deceased from Mumbai are: Taruni Sachdev, GeetaSachdev, Shiv Arora, Menaka Arora, Kamal Arora, Mukesh Ashok Handa,Rakesh Ashok Handa and Krishna Chaitanya Das. "All the devotees are in a state of shock here. They had allgone on a pilgrimage. We are ourselves trying to contact the familymembers of all the unfortunate devotees, but they have gone toKathmandu to claim the bodies," an official of ISKCON, Juhu,told The Hindu on Tuesday. Ms. Taruni's demise was mourned by the Hindi and Malayalam filmindustries. She had featured in many advertisements and had actedin Malayalam movies Vellinakshatram and Satyam . "SHOCKED and very saddened to hear about the Nepal planecrash. Lost 1 of my cutest co-stars. Little Taruni Sachdev fromPAA. Speechless.....[sic]," actor Abhishek Bachchan tweetedon Tuesday. "Just reading that Taruni Sachdev the girl child artist inPaa, has perished in Nepal plane crash...please God may this not betrue [sic]," actor Amitabh Bachchan had tweeted earlier thatday. Sources said her father Haresh had gone to Kathmandu to claim thebodies of his daughter and wife. He had earlier told reporters thathe would not like to talk to the media at a moment of private grieffor the family. The Aroras, who went for the pilgrimage, were joined by theirteenaged son Shiv (19), for a trek in the Himalayas. Kamal andMenaka Arora left behind two daughters. "Both of them areunder shock. Both are working, the elder daughter ismarried," a family friend who knew the Aroras for the past 16years told The Hindu. Kamal Arora ran a business of imitation jewellery. "Menakaused to help him in the business. Shiv was studying incollege," the family friend said. The couple were in their50s. Their exact age could not be ascertained. R.K. Mehra, 78-year-old father of Menaka Arora, could barely speakof the loss. "What do I say? Our entire family has suffered ahuge setback. My sons have gone to Kathmandu. Nothing remains now.I don't want to share anything," he said. Mukesh and Rakesh Ashok Handa were regular visitors at the city'sISKCON temple. The Bandra youths left behind their ageing parents."They were devout bhaktas of Swamiji," a devotee at thetemple said. Their father went to Kathmandu on Tuesday. Krishna Chaitanya Das, the 30-year-old brahmachari of the CharniRoad ISKCON temple, had renounced worldly pleasures and taken tobrahmacharya around six years ago. "He originally hails fromHyderabad. He was staying at our temple since the past six years.The temple informed his family after the accident. His brother andfather have gone to Kathmandu," an official of ISKCON said. Devotees said that after Krishna Chaitanya Das started staying atthe temple as a brahmachari, he was known as Gaura Krishna. I am an expert from healthy-e-cigarette.com, while we provides the quality product, such as Disposable Electric Cigarette , China Electronic Health Cigarette, Mini e Health Cigarette,and more.
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