Thane: This is a case of a lucky daughter and not that lucky father from Thane, who worked in the Taj Hotel, which was among the four places in Mumbai targeted by terrorists since Wednesday.
The unfortunate Fosten Martis, 50,working in the Taj was the resident of the Residency Complex in the Wagle Estate in Thane.
Wednesday was the wedding anniversary of Martis and he fell prey to the terrorists attack in the Taj on the same day.
Martin was serving as the head steward in the hotel. It was two years back his daughter Florence (Priya), 23,got a job as a receptionist in the same hotel.
Immediately upon coming to know about the terrorists entering the hotel Martis' son Flayd made an attempt to contact his father and sister but in vain and he could not reach them as the network was not available.
However, at about 1.30 am on Thursday Florence contacted her brother Flayd and told him that she was held up in the second floor room in the hotel.
Meanwhile Martis talked to his wife Pracil at 5.30 am on Thursday.
Martis asked Florence to be brave and told her that he would get her something to eat as she was hungry.
As he was bringing cake for his daughter in the upper floor he was targeted by the terrorists and killed.
Meanwhile, the family members of Martis at home rushed to the local Congress Corporator and leader of the Congress in the Thane Municipal Corporation Ravindra Phatak, who in turn contacted the personnel from Taj and wanted to know the whereabouts of the father and daughter. He had a rude shock from the other side when he was informed that Martis was killed by the terrorists.
It was on Thursday morning Florence got out of the hotel along with a group of staff members not knowing that her father is no more and when she reached home she was shocked to know that her father had fallen to bullets of the terrorsits.
It was a most unfortunate incident in which the Martis family has beraved on the day of their marriage anniversary.
