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Funeral of royal hoax nurse set for today in Shirva in India
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December 17, 2012, Monday
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THE body of an Indian-born nurse who was found hanged after taking a hoax call to the hospital treating Prince William's wife arrived in Mangalore yesterday following a memorial mass in London.
Jacintha Saldanha, 46, apparently committed suicide after answering the prank telephone call from two Australian radio DJs to the hospital where Catherine was admitted during the early stages of her pregnancy.
Saldanha's funeral is due to take place today near Mangalore in Shirva, the home town of her husband Benedict Barboza, who accompanied her body on the flight to India along with their son, 16, and daughter, 14.
"Jacintha and her family, they were working in the UK to earn their daily bread," Stany Tauro, priest of the Our Lady of Health Church in Shirva, said. "The community is sad over the death."
He said locals were proud that she had been a successful nurse who worked in a hospital where the British royal family were treated, but that many were shocked at the tragedy.
Tauro said residents would be able to pay their final respects to the body before the service of mass scheduled for the afternoon and the burial ceremony.
C. Mutthiah, deputy commissioner of police in Mangalore, confirmed the body had landed in Mangalore, while a family source said that it would be kept in a mortuary overnight and taken to Shirva today.
Saldanha's frail mother lives along with her other daughter and a son in Mangalore, 360 kilometers from Bangalore, the capital of Karnataka state.
"The government... is seeking an enquiry so that the truth should come out and what the reasons are behind this incident," said local politician D.V. Sadananda Gowda after visiting a family relative.
Saldanha's body arrived a day after the nurse's children told a service at London's Westminster Cathedral that her death had created "an unfillable void" in their lives.
"We will miss your laughter, the loving memories and the good times we had together. The house is an empty dwelling without your presence," her daughter Lisha said.
A London inquest last week heard that Saldanha, who moved to UK 12 years ago, had been found hanged in staff quarters on December 7 and that there were no suspicious circumstances over her death.
Jacintha Saldanha, 46, apparently committed suicide after answering the prank telephone call from two Australian radio DJs to the hospital where Catherine was admitted during the early stages of her pregnancy.
Saldanha's funeral is due to take place today near Mangalore in Shirva, the home town of her husband Benedict Barboza, who accompanied her body on the flight to India along with their son, 16, and daughter, 14.
"Jacintha and her family, they were working in the UK to earn their daily bread," Stany Tauro, priest of the Our Lady of Health Church in Shirva, said. "The community is sad over the death."
He said locals were proud that she had been a successful nurse who worked in a hospital where the British royal family were treated, but that many were shocked at the tragedy.
Tauro said residents would be able to pay their final respects to the body before the service of mass scheduled for the afternoon and the burial ceremony.
C. Mutthiah, deputy commissioner of police in Mangalore, confirmed the body had landed in Mangalore, while a family source said that it would be kept in a mortuary overnight and taken to Shirva today.
Saldanha's frail mother lives along with her other daughter and a son in Mangalore, 360 kilometers from Bangalore, the capital of Karnataka state.
"The government... is seeking an enquiry so that the truth should come out and what the reasons are behind this incident," said local politician D.V. Sadananda Gowda after visiting a family relative.
Saldanha's body arrived a day after the nurse's children told a service at London's Westminster Cathedral that her death had created "an unfillable void" in their lives.
"We will miss your laughter, the loving memories and the good times we had together. The house is an empty dwelling without your presence," her daughter Lisha said.
A London inquest last week heard that Saldanha, who moved to UK 12 years ago, had been found hanged in staff quarters on December 7 and that there were no suspicious circumstances over her death.
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