SRINAGAR:Adnan Altaf, a Kashmiri MBBS student who was found dead in a pond in Bangladesh, was laid to rest at his native village of Dangerpora in Sopore on Tuesday, with thousands of people attending his funeral amid grief and sorrow.
His Namaz-e-Janaza was offered at 11:30 am, following which his mortal remains were laid to rest at the village graveyard.
Adnan, a resident of Dangerpora in north Kashmir’s Sopore, was pursuing his MBBS at Eastern Medical College in Cumilla, Bangladesh, where he was enrolled in the institution’s 14th batch for the 2017–18 academic session. He was reportedly in the final semester of his medical course.
His mortal remains reached Srinagar International Airport on Tuesday morning after being flown to Delhi from Bangladesh on Monday. From the airport, the body was taken to his native village for the last rites.
Adnan had gone missing from his college premises on the night of November 2. His body was recovered on November 4 from a pond in Monipur village in the Burichang upazila of Cumilla district, Bangladesh.
The circumstances surrounding his death remain unclear, and Bangladeshi authorities are investigating the case to establish the exact cause of death.
Earlier, Kashmiri MBBS students studying in Bangladesh had offered Namaz-e-Janaza in his absence and prayed for his departed soul.
His death has plunged his native village into mourning, with a large number of people gathering to pay their last respects.
