New Delhi, India – Saddar-Ud-Din had been waiting for his son’s body at the Guru Teg Bahadur (GTB) Hospital since Monday evening. His 32-year-old son Mohammad Furqan was killed by an angry mob in the Kardam Puri area of northeast New Delhi reported Al Jazeera.
He was among dozens of people who waited on Wednesday outside the mortuary at the GTB hospital to receive the bodies of their relatives.
“Hindus and Muslims have been living in harmony for decades in the area. I’ve not seen such a situation in decades Din said reported Al Jazeera.
Rahul Solanki, 26, who worked in a marketing company, was shot in the neck on Monday evening as he left his home to go shopping, his younger brother told Al Jazeera outside the GTB Hospital mortuary, where the family was waiting for his body.
Al Jazeera quoted Rohit Solanki brother of deceased as saying, he has been living in Mustafabad, a Muslim-dominated area all his life and he had never experienced any animosity between the Hindu and Muslim communities.”I’ve never seen any problem between Hindus and Muslims in our area. We always lived in communal harmony he had said to Al Jazeera.
The death toll on Thursday climbed to 34 in the worst religious violence to have hit national capital Delhi in decades.
