NEW DELHI: These were a trying five days for Sunita Singh as she frantically searched for her missing husband, Prem. Having visited several hospitals, her search sadly ended at the mortuary of Guru Tegh Bahadur Hospital. Clothes brought for Singh from “mangal bazaar” (weekly market) in Brijpuri helped Sunita identify her husband from among the six other bodies.
Sunita, who is now seven months pregnant, was inconsolable as she held her three-year-old son. She has two other children, one nine and another five, whom she had left at her home in Gali No. 3, C block, Brijpuri. On Tuesday morning, Singh, a rickshaw puller, had stepped out to get milk. He never returned. “I told him not to go outside, but he did not listen. He said he should get the milk,” said Sunita, who along with her neighbour, Nisha Sharma, had registered a missing complaint at Welcome PS.
For Nasima, too, the search for her son, Aqil Ahmed, ended at the mortuary. Ahmed had gone missing from his house in Mustafabad on February 26. Ahmed’s wife and four children had gone to Loni when the incident took place. Ahmed used to work at a car wash.
At the mortuary, there are still three bodies yet to be identified. A youth, who has been coming to the mortuary since Wednesday in hope of finding his brother, has already looked at 20-odd corpses.
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