- Story Highlights
- Boy's parents, uncle, three cousins killed at attack on train station in Mumbai, India
- Boy, 13, is recovering from shrapnel wounds
- Brother has not told him about the deaths, is worried how it would impact recovery
- Brother says he will explain to boy, show him burial place when he leaves hospital
MUMBAI, India (CNN) -- As the boy, 13, looks up from his Mumbai hospital bed, his adult brother rests his hand on the boy's forehead, almost shielding him from the pain he does not yet know -- much of his family was killed in Wednesday's terrorist attacks.
Gunmen entered the Victoria Terminus train station Wednesday and opened fire.
Wednesday's well-planned but indiscriminate attacks targeted two luxury hotels, a Jewish center and the Victoria Terminus train station, where the boy's parents, uncle and three cousins waited to board.
The terrorists burst in, firing automatic weapons and hurling grenades, leaving the boy's six family members among the 179 killed across the city.
The names of the boy and his brother are being withheld to protect their identities. 
The 13-year-old is not alone in tragedy. A 2-year-old boy became an orphan on his birthday Saturday, after his mother and father, who was a rabbi at the Jewish center, were gunned down.
The 2-year-old was taken to Israel on Monday and will live with the nanny who carried him to safety at the Taj Hotel last week. And he is probably too young to remember the horror of November 26, 2008.
But at the JJ Hospital in Mumbai, the 13-year-old has questions for his brother and his doctors -- where is the rest of his family? Why haven't his parents visited?
His brother won't tell him yet.
"I feel that if we tell him, he is so young he will be terribly affected by it. He is badly injured now and there might be problems," the brother told CNN. "That's why we thought it's best not to tell him. He's just a kid."
Dr. BM Subnis, dean of the hospital, said the boy will have to learn the truth soon.
"We have told him that we are locating your parents and they shall soon come back and meet you," Subnis said. "But the way I see him over the days now, the child is very smart and intelligent and has understood that his parents are no more. Everybody is hiding from him that they are no more."
Subnis said they feared telling the boy would send him into shock and impact his recovery from shrapnel wounds.
"That's what we earlier thought," Subnis said. "But now, this hiding is affecting his recovery."
So when the time is right, the brother will share the devastating news.
"Once he's out of the hospital, I'll take him to the place where our parents are buried and tell him this is your mother and this is your father and this is the rest of your family and whatever has happened has happened," the brother said.
15 comments:
i cant belive that this has happend to this little boy and it just shoes how lucky we are
this is terrible all the family of this 13 year old kid was killed in a terrorist attack. Also I think the people in the hospital were intelligent because telling him the truth while he was recovering might have affected him.
I remeber when I went to India, (about 2 years ago) there were also terorrists attack and cops were searching for bombs under cars and in bags. I stayed in an hotel and I heard some gun fire and the next morning some persons were missing. It was and is very seriouse
AWwwww. That is sad i hope that does not happen in canada. I know someone that was killed in a terrorist attack. I really hope there will not be anymore terrorists in this world. Then the world will be a peaceful place! (but first we should screen the students in s.a.c if they are terrorists [expessially
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I think this attack in India has got to stop many have died and many more will die if this attack does not get solved
This unfortunate boys life is very sad. I think what his brother did to hide his parents and relatives death was right if he had told him he would have got in a shock. This shows that how lucky we are and how unlucky they are.
I agree with Braden with how luckey we are. It is crazy how there are gunnings hapining in the world.
Thats is so sad that a 13 year old boy didn't know that his own realtives died. I 'm grateful that my realtives are alive.
I really think that this is a sad story because a 13 year old boy is realizing that his family members are dead a horrible death. It is not exciting finding ou that his family mebers or cousins, aunts, uncles have died. I would be balling the hole entire day about that. I feel great compassion for this boy; I know that it is not easy to have family members that you see at one point and at the next point, they are gone; completely gone!
I sincerely cannot even imagine being in this boy's shoes. Just imagine in how much pain, sadness and turmoil this boy will be when he someone tells him the truth . We should really appreciate the fact that there are very few or even no terrorists here in Canada. It is very sad and really heart breaking to even hear what happpened to this young boy.
they should probably tell him the truth other wise he may never trust his brother again.
WOW!! What kind of people would kill other human beings. The poor little 13 year old boy who has just lost his mom and dad and the rest of his family. This articile really gets me wanting to do something to help the poor children who had lost their families
what do they want????
what do the terrorists want?
money? having fun? trying to find something exciting? jealous because others have parents and they don't?
This article really relates with the other article that stated, "a childs relatives had died." And both of them were in Mumbai. Aperently, there is a boy who his parents, uncle and three cousins got killed by attack. I have no idea why but someone decides to go kill a boys family, I really wonder why that killer would do that or if he had any reasons as to why he would go killing somebody's family like that. That boy must be so sad; he lost his parents, uncle, THREE cousins. I wonder what else he has. If I was in this boys state, I would be so mad and sad at the same time, I would just lose everything. I have great sorrow for this boy!
it is horrible that the kid got killed in the terrorist ataack and they don't know why they got killed. And also we should know how lucky we are bacuase we don't need to join the war and we can study in school and learn things.
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