Samir Akaa, a NHPC employee, was was admitted to a COVID Hospital last week where he died of the disease on Sunday.
In a heartwarming gesture of communal harmony, Muslim volunteers on Monday performed the last rites of a non-local Christian man who died of COVID-19 in Kargil district of Ladakh.
Locals told Greater Kashmir that Samir Akaa, a resident of Ranchi, the capital city of Jharkhand was posted as an employee of NHPC in Kargil and was tested COVID-19 positive and was later admitted at a COVID Hospital last week.
Samir succumbed to the disease on Sunday as per the locals.
With no friends and family around the deceased, local Muslim volunteers from Anjuman Jamiat-ul-Ulama Isna Ashriya Kargil (AJUIAK) stepped in and buried Samir near Chaman Mode, adjacent to the Muslim graveyard in Kargil, locals said.
Eyewitnesses said that the Muslim volunteers performed the last rites of the deceased wearing PPE kits as part of the required protocol.
