Manipur bids tearful adieu to AI crew member Lamnunthem Singson

IMPHAL: Hundreds of local people, family members, relatives and senior officials on Friday bid a tearful farewell to 26-year-old Lamnunthem Singson, one of the two Air India crew members from Manipur, who were killed in the horrifying Ahmedabad plane crash on June 12, in the state’s Kangpokpi district. 

The mortal remains of Lamnunthem arrived in the hill district late Thursday evening from Ahmedabad via Nagaland’s Dimapur airport. Family sources said that her mortal remains were brought to Kangpokpi, avoiding Manipur’s capital, Imphal, due to the ongoing ethnic tension and security reasons.

In the presence of hundreds of people, including family members and community leaders, the funeral service began on Friday morning, and then her burial took place at the town cemetery at Kangpokpi in the afternoon. Lamnunthem’s body was flown from Ahmedabad to Dimapur in an IndiGo flight on Thursday and received by family members, community representatives, and officials at the airport. On the way from Dimapur to Kangpokpi by road, the convoy halted several times as people and members from organizations, including Kuki and Naga bodies, bid her farewell and paid tribute to the departed soul.

Born on November 13, 1998, Lamnunthem was the only daughter of her widowed mother, Nemneilhing Singson and the third among four siblings. Her late father, Lienminlun Singson, had passed away a few years ago. Following the ethnic violence that devastated Manipur since May 2023, the family of Lamnunthem, who belonged to the tribal Kuki-Zo community, fled their ancestral home in Imphal’s Old Lambulane area and have since then lived in a rented house in Kangpokpi district. (IANS)

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