Hurriyat leader Ashraf Sehrai dies in detention, buried in Lolab of Kashmir
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The jailed Tehreek-i-Hurriyat chairman and senior pro-freedom leader, Muhammad Ashraf Sehrai, 78, breathed his last at a hospital in Jammu on Wednesday, where he was shifted from Udhampur jail after complaining of severe respiratory illness.
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The jailed Tehreek-i-Hurriyat chairman and senior pro-freedom leader, Muhammad Ashraf Sehrai, 78, breathed his last at a hospital in Jammu on Wednesday, where he was shifted from Udhampur jail after complaining of severe respiratory illness.
Sehrai was shifted to Government Medical College in Jammu on Tuesday and his family in Srinagar - over 300kms away - was informed about his deteriorating health condition. Within hours of being admitted to Jammu hospital, doctors declared him dead. His oxygen saturation level was around 65 to 70. However, the family informed that his Rapid and RT-PCR tests for Covid19 were negative. Sehrai has s