In a shocking incident, an Army jawan named Muhammad Abbas from a remote village of Karnah tehsil in Kashmir’s frontier district of Kupwara was forced to carry his mother's body on Thursday.

He carried his 60-year-old mother Sakeena Begum's dead body on his shoulders and began trekking through the waist-deep snow from Chowkibal to his native village close to the Line of Control (LoC) where he plans to cremate his mother.

Abbas was accompanied by a few relatives, he was thinking to reach the destination by late evening “if, God forbid, nothing untoward happens en route”.

Chowkibal-Karnah road is total 52km and passes through elevations of about 3,200 metres is avalanche- prone. An official warning was given against venturing out in the area stands valid for next 24 hours.

After his mother died, authorities assured to arrange a helicopter for relocation but they failed to fulfil their promise. Abbas’s mother died last week due to cardiac arrest at the Pathankot base in neighbouring Punjab.

After coming back to Kashmir, the body was kept at the barrack in  Kupwara for four nights with Abbas praying for a possible trip by road. But heavy snowfall took place. Abbas said that "I was promised that a helicopter would be arranged to take me home to his village in Karnah. But they kept us waiting and we were left with no option but to walk."

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BY M. DIVYA SRI