Watch | Denied ambulance, man walks with wife’s dead body on shoulder

Updated on Aug 25, 2016 06:06 pm IST

In a heartbreaking incident from Odisha's Kalahandi, a man walked 10 km with his wife's body on his shoulder and his crying 12-year-old daughter by his side to reach his village. He had no vehicle to take home his wife's body from a government hospital, which is 60 km from his village. Dana Majhi's wife Amang Dei died due to tuberculosis at the hospital in Kalahandi on Tuesday night. According to Majhi, he requested the hospital to provide him an ambulance but authorities told him that they cannot help.

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