As many within the community mourn the death of 42-year-old Daphne Kochar, a tight-knit group of South Asians living in Greater Sudbury have been hit especially hard by the news.
"Members of the India-Canada Association of Sudbury are stunned and shocked with a sense of disbelief," reads a press release issued by the group.
Kochar disappeared Nov. 6 and has been the subject of an intense police search. On Dec. 27, a body was discovered by a group of hunters in a wooded area in Burwash Twp. It was announced Dec. 30 that the remains discovered were those of Kochar, a wife a mother of three girls.
"This has been the most tragic, saddening, horrifying and terrorizing event in the history of the close-knit South Asian community of Greater Sudbury of which Daphne was an active member."
"We share in the sorrow of the family and pray for the soul of the deceased."
Although police have ruled Kochar's death as suspicious, the case has yet to be declared a homicide.
