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Nine children lost both their parents in Himachal Pradesh in the brutal second coronavirus wave sweeping the country.
In Kangra, a class 10 boy and his seven-year-old sister lost their mother on April 29 and later their father to Covid on May 5. In Hamirpur district, the teenaged siblings, a brother, and a sister had only one parent. They had lost their father sometime back but now mother died of Covid -19. We are in touch with their uncle and grandparents, who have decided to take care of them. T
Lalit Mohan
Dharamsala, May 14
Pictures of a son carrying the body of his Covid positive mother to the cremation ground has brought netizens across the state to tears.
He was identified as Bir Singh, a resident of the Ranital area of Kangra district.
Bir Singh on Thursday had to carry his mother on his shoulders for about 1 km, as none of his relatives, district administration officials or villages, came forward to help.
Photos of Bir Singh wearing a PPE kit, carrying the body of his mother wrapped in PPE kits, surfaced on social media.
This incident has left people in shock. They have flayed the government for its failure to provide honest last rites to Covid deaths. This has also brought attention to the problems faced by people in cremating deceased corona positive people in the state.