Kerala: Tribal woman’s body carried in auto-rickshaw in Wayanad as officials fail to provide ambulance
6 days, 10 hours ago

Kerala: Tribal woman’s body carried in auto-rickshaw in Wayanad as officials fail to provide ambulance

Live Mint  

An elderly tribal woman's dead body was taken to a burial ground in an autorickshaw in the Edavaka panchayat of Kerala's Wayanad on Monday. The village panchayat president, Ahammed Kutty, told the Indian Express that he had informed the tribal department in advance that they would need an ambulance on Sunday. The family waited for the ambulance till 4 pm and later had no option but to take the dead body in an autorickshaw to the burial ground located 3.5 km away. As there was no ambulance, the family took the body in an autorickshaw to the burial ground 3.5 km away,” IE quoted Kutty as saying.

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