This story is from October 21, 2020

Funeral of Telangana soldier conducted in Kashmir

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.
Funeral of Telangana soldier conducted in Kashmir
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.
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Sushil Rao is Editor-Special Reports, at The Times of India, Hyderabad. He began his journalism career at the age of 20 in 1988. He is a gold medalist in journalism from the Department of Communication and Journalism, Arts College, Osmania University, Hyderabad from where he did his post-graduation from. He has been with The Times of India’s Hyderabad edition since its launch in 2000. He has also done an introductory course in film studies from the Film and Television Institute of India, Pune, and also from the Central University of Kerala equipping himself with the knowledge of filmmaking for film criticism. He has authored four books. In his career spanning 34 years, he has worked for five newspapers and has also done television reporting. He was also a web journalist during internet’s infancy in the mid 1990s in India. He covers defence, politics, diaspora, innovation, administration, the film industry, Hyderabad city and Telangana state, and human interest stories. He is also a podcaster, blogger, does video reporting and makes documentaries.

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