Indian air stewardess in iconic Brussels airport bomb photo WAKES from coma

Mother-of-two, from Mumbai, kept in medically induced coma for 25 days


The Indian air stewardess whose iconic image of her shell shocked with blood splattered across her face became a symbol of the Brussels airport bombings has woken from her coma - a month on from the terror attacks. Nidhi Chaphekar, 42, suffered 15 per cent burns on her body and fractured her foot as she sat shell shocked, blouse open and dust in her hair struggling to make sense of the chaos in the immediate aftermath of the atrocity. Nidhi spent 25 days in a medically induced coma in a Brussels hospital before being gently awoken to find her beloved husband Rupesh waiting for her to come round at her bedside. Read more:

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