Zimbabwe’s health-care and funeral services have been left staggering by the weight of the Covid third wave. As more succumb to the virus, Harare’s gravediggers are overwhelmed
Four gravediggers booked for reselling grave for Rs20,000
Karachi
May 16, 2021
Police booked four gravediggers after they found them involved in allegedly reselling a grave at a cemetery in Karachi on Saturday.
Action was taken after a citizen, Alam Khan, visited the Ismail Goth cemetery within the limits of the Sharafi Goth police station to pray for his father at his grave on the first Eid holiday but found the grave dug up.
Following the incident, a large number of people gathered at the graveyard and showed their concern. They also staged a protest against the incident, accusing the gravediggers of reselling the grave for Rs20,000.
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