Rohini businessman's engineering student son dies in Pune's Sassoon Hospital after battling burn injuries

Holi would never be the same again for Misha.

The 24-year-old MBA student at the Indraprastha University was sad that she would not be able to celebrate

Aditya Mehta's Rohini residence and his fatheru00a0at Pune's Sassoon Hospital. The engineering studentu00a0was the eleventh victim of the German Bakery blast. Pics/Subhash Barolia and Nikhil Ghorpade

the festival of colours this year with her brother, Aditya, who was pursing engineering at a Pune college.

Her parents though had gone to Pune on Saturday and she was told that Aditya would not be able to come for Holi this year.

On Tuesday evening, while she was watching TV at her Rohini Sector 8 residence, her neighbours came and broke the news. They told her that the TV channels were airing her brother's name among the list of those killed in Pune blast.

"While surfing news channels I saw Aditya's name in the list of the dead. When I asked Misha, she drew a blank. She didn't even know that her brother had died," Pankaj Chawla, a neighbour told MiD DAY.

Aditya, a student of Bharatiya Vidyapeeth, suffered 60 per cent burn injuries in the blast at German Bakery where he had gone with her friend Aditi.

US offers help

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