Albert Augustine was killed by a stray bullet on April 15, 2023, amid clashes between Sudanese armed forces and paramilitaries in Khartoum. (Pic source/Keralakaumudi.comAn Indian Catholic killed by a stray bullet in Sudan in front of his wife and daughter on April 15 is finally home, with his remains returned to the southern Indian state of Kerala May 19 and laid to rest the next day.
Augustine had invited his wife and daughter to join him in Sudan for a couple of weeks during their summer vacation before the violence erupted, and they found themselves trapped in his apartment for days after his death awaiting evacuation. The family is deeply Catholic, with one of Augustine’s sisters being a nun.
The body was transported from Port Sudan airport to a military airbase near New Delhi by an Indian Air Force flight. It arrived at the family home in Nellippara, Kerala, around 1.00am on Saturday, May 20. Augustine’s sister, a member of the Sisters of St Joseph of Annecy and director of St Joseph’s Community College in Bhubaneswar in northeastern India, said the family’s Catholic faith is a source of comfort.
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