India, Feb. 1 -- Zakia Jafri, a survivor of the 2002 Gujarat riots and the wife of former Congress lawmaker Ehsan Jafri who was killed in the violence, died on Saturday at her daughter's home in Ahmedabad. She was 86.

"My mother was staying with my sister, who had arrived from the US in January, at her home in Ahmedabad. After completing her morning routine and having breakfast, my mother began feeling unwell. She was resting in her bed, and when my sister called the doctor, he examined her and declared that she had passed away," said Tanvir Jafri, Zakia Jafri's son, over the phone.

Ehsan Jafri was among 69 people who were killed inside Gulbarg Society, a Muslim neighbourhood in Ahmedabad, on February 28, 2002, a day after coaches of th...