HYDERABAD: The
funeral of
soldier Shakir Hussain from Kagazhnagar in
Kumarambheem Asifabad district of
Telangana, who died in an accident in Ladakh, was performed in Kashmir on Tuesday as the deceased had tested positive for Covid-19.
The 35-year-old Havaldar of the 11 Engineers Regiment was buried in Kashmir after Army officials told the family that the body could not be sent home.
Army officials who were in touch with the family members since Shakir Hussain died on October 17 advised the family to travel to Kashmir to attend the funeral.
“While the death itself came as shock to us, the information that the body would not be sent because of Covid caused more grief to all of us here,” Shakir’s relative Mohd Azeem told TOI on Tuesday.
With a retired Army personnel coming home and counselling the family, six members of the family left for Kashmir to attend the funeral.
This included his wife, parents, younger brother, brother-in-law and another relative.