Family of first body found is missing
The family are all still missing after their plane went down
Surbaya, Indonesia: At the muddy gravesite where Hayati Lutfiah Hamid was buried, something was missing. Though around 150 villagers had gathered to lay the first identified victim of AirAsia Flight 8501 to rest, the people who would mourn her most were not there.
Her husband, Djoko Suseno, 9-year-old daughter, Naura Kanita Rosada Suseno, and mother-in-law, Soemanik Saeran, are all still missing in the Java Sea after their plane went down Sunday, killing all 162 people on board. Hayati’s body was handed over to her family in a dark casket on Thursday and in accordance with Islam buried immediately.
All week, in Soemanik’s simple village house on the outskirts of Surabaya, relatives and friends have sat on prayer mats laid at the porch for their nightly intercession. Hayati, 39, had planned the year-end excursion to Singapore and Malaysia for months as a treat for her daughter and mother-in-law. It was their first trip abroad.