'Sole Breadwinner': Indian Killed In Kuwait Drone Strike Was Coming To Ujjain To Attend Niece's Wedding

Last Updated:June 06, 2026, 11:57 IST

Manzoor Ahmed, who had been working as a tailor in Kuwait for nearly 30 years, was killed in an Iranian strike that targeted Kuwait International Airport on Wednesday

At Manzoor Ahmed’s home back in Madhya Pradesh’s Ujjain, family members were busy celebrating as his niece’s wedding was scheduled. That happiness did not last long. On the fateful day of June 3, the family got a piece of information that changed their lives forever: Ahmed was no more.

Manzoor Ahmed — who had been working as a tailor in Kuwait for nearly 30 years — was killed in an Iranian strike that targeted Kuwait International Airport on Wednesday.

According to a report by NDTV, he was scheduled to board a flight from Kuwait around 7:30 A.M. for Mumbai, from where he was to catch a train to Ujjain to attend his niece’s wedding.

A day before boarding the flight, Ahmed had spoken to his 18-year-old son Anas Ahmed, asking him to come to the railway station to pick him up.

Speaking to reporters, grief-stricken Anas Ahmed recalled the last conversation with his father. “He said he would come by the Nagda train. ‘Come pick me up,’ he told us," he said, as quoted by NDTV. 

Unaware that tragedy lied ahead, Anas and his family members got busy making preparations to welcome Manzoor. Given that he was coming to India after about seven months, the family decided to greet him with garlands.

On Wednesday, however, the family got informed that Manzoor was killed in a drone strike at Kuwait airport that also left 13 other Indian nationals wounded.

He is survived by his wife, a son, two daughters and an elderly mother.

“We are devastated. He was the sole breadwinner of the family. Everything happened so suddenly," his brother-in-law Mohammed Ismail news agency PTI. 

As his body arrived in Ahmedabad on Friday, his family and relatives took his mortal remains to Ujjain to perform his last rites.

India Condemns Attack

In a statement on Wednesday, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) reacted strongly to the drone attack on Kuwait International Airport, asserting the civilian population and civilian infrastructure should not be targeted.

“Since the onset of the conflict in West Asia, we have strongly urged that the civilian population and civilian infrastructure must not be targeted. We again call upon parties to cease such attacks," it had said.

At least 10 Indians have been killed so far in the hostilities in West Asia that began on February 28, when the United States and Israel launched coordinated strikes on Iran, killing its Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

The ceasefire between Iran and the U.S. — announced by President Donald Trump in April — remains fragile amid stalled negotiation over key issues including the release of frozen Iranian assets and its enriched uranium.

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