In a heartwarming gesture of communal harmony, Muslim volunteers 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 of Ranchi, Jharkhand was posted in Kargil as an employee of NHPC and tested COVID-19 positive.
He was admitted at a COVID hospital last week.
Samir succumbed to the infection on Sunday, locals said.
With no friends and family around the deceased, local Muslim volunteers from AnjumanJamiat-ul-UlamaIsnaAshriyaKargil (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.
President AnjumanJamiat-ul-UlamaIsnaAshriyaKargil, Nazir Mehdi Mohammadi, also shared some photographs of the burial on his Twitter handle wherein the Muslim volunteers are seen carrying the coffin of the deceased.
Nazir thanked the volunteers for setting an example of humanity.