Mehvish Mumtaz
Srinagar, May 17: A non-local man, who purportedly died of cardiac arrest in south Kashmir’s Anantnag awaits a decent burial for the past four days.
Sources told GNS that Shamasdin son of Madis Ansari of Jamia Masjid Dadia Kushinagar UP, who was working as a tailor in Anantnag, died on the intervening night of 12 and 13 May at GMC hospital Janglat Mandi following a heart attack. However, the doctors decided to take his sample for COVID-19. “The report is still awaited,” they said. The body has been kept in the mortuary of District Hospital.
Official sources said the legal heirs have given consent to bury the body in Anantnag as transporting it to his home town is not possible amid the ongoing lockdown.
A formal order has been also issued by the Deputy Commissioner Anantnag for his immediate burial, they said.
“We are awaiting the reports of the swab sample taken for the COVID-19,” GMC Principal Anantnag Dr. Showkat Gellani said. He said while the man has been identified, there are directions for taking his samples for DNA also. “We will make a fresh call to lab to seek the sample report at an earliest,” he added.
Deputy Commissioner Anantnag Bashir Ahmad Dar confirmed that he has given consent for the burial here after formal communications consenting to it was received from his legal heirs.
