People standing during the funeral tried to pull him out of the pyre and rushed him to the district hospital, from where Ananad was referred to Agra Medical College.
On Tuesday, 716 new cases of coronavirus were reported in the Beed district, raising its tally to 28,491. The district has so far recorded 672 deaths due to the disease, as per official data.
In Punjab as family members have been staying away to perform the last rites of suspected or confirmed coronavirus disease, it is government functionaries who have been coming forth and doing rituals religiously.
The woman identified as Poonam died under mysterious circumstances on Sunday and on receiving information from common friends, her father Rajpal and brother Satyavir reached her home in Chola Chauki village and found her lying dead on a cot.
A villager lodged a missing complaint about his brother following a rumour that the family members of the 45-year-old woman, whose cremation was going on, were also burning alive the 26-year-old on the same pyre, police said.
In a shocking incident, a 28-year-old woman, who was heartbroken with her brother’s death, allegedly committed suicide by jumping into his burning pyre in Rajashtan’s Dungarpur district.
Mumbai, Jul 19: It was grandson Aarav who lighted Rajesh Khanna's funeral pyre at the Pawan Hans crematorium in Ville Parle today. Ten-year-old Aarav Bhatia, son of Twinkle and Akshay Kumar, was born in September,
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