Click to play videoMehrana (Haryana): Strangers in life but unidentifiable in death: 19 unclaimed bodies of victims of the Samjhauta blasts were brought for burial in Mehrana village near Panipat.
For them, it is a double tragedy put to rest by unknown people after being burnt alive, many of them Pakistanis.
Shahnawaz Ali, who came to bury his cousin from Pakistan, couldn’t bring along other relatives from across the border.
“My relatives did not have a passport. But they will come in a day or two,” he explained.
It was the people of Mehrana and Panipat who came forward to organise the burial.
While the Haryana Waqf board allotted land in the Mehrana cemetery, locals dug the graves and put in the coffins.
19 bodies were identified and four were unidentified. The burial process went smoothly,” said Chief Executive of Haryana Waqf Board, Mohammed Shaheen.
The graves at Mehrana have been dug deeper than the normal. Once the DNA reports are out and if the samples match, then these bodies will have to be exhumed and handed back to the relatives.
With the unclaimed bodies being buried in Mehrana, families across the border shed tears and yearn to perform the last rites of the loved ones.
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