A grieving Indian man carried his wife’s body six miles after the hospital where she was pronounced dead couldn’t provide a way to transport her body home.
Dana Manjhi, the husband, carried his wife’s body 6.2 miles by foot on Wednesday, CNN reported. His 12-year-old daughter accompanied him.
Amang Dei, the man’s 42-year-old old wife, died of tuberculosis on Tuesday evening in eastern Odisha state. “Doctors said she had malaria and TB. All the money I had was spent on medicines,” he said, which was translated by broadcaster NDTV. “[I] requested hospital to help take her body back to the village. They refused to make any arrangements. I had to carry her body on my shoulders.”
