The editor and owner of Urdu weekly Awami Moazin and father of Greater Kashmir Shopian correspondent Gulzar Bhat passed away at SKIMS Soura early today.
Mohammad Yousuf Bhat (68), a resident of Nakhasi Mohalla, Shopian, was admitted at SKIMS Soura ten days ago. He had tested COVID-19 positive on May 18.
However, he breathed his last at the tertiary facility at 4:30 am. The deceased, who tested negative for COVID-19 posthumously, was laid to rest at his ancestral graveyard in Shopian town around 8am.
In a condolence meet, the Greater Kashmir staff prayed for peace to the departed soul and courage to the bereaved.