Rajasthan woman gets severe burns after she jumps on the funeral pyre of her father (Representational)
Barmer, Rajasthan:
In a tragic incident, a 34-year-old woman sustained severe burns in Rajasthan after she jumped on the funeral pyre of her father during his cremation. Her father had died after contracting COVID-19, police said today.
Damodardas Sharda, 73, died at a hospital in Rajasthan's Barmer district on Tuesday due to COVID-19, they said.
While Sharda was being cremated, the youngest of his three daughters, Chandra Sharda, suddenly jumped on the pyre, the police told news agency Press Trust of India, adding that although she was pulled out of it by people around, she sustained around 70 per cent burn injuries.