His wife Yam Maya has been crying for all these days hoping to see his face for one last time. “I want to see his face for one last time and put a garland on his body,” Yam Maya said. [break]
Pointing at her 2-year-old daughter, Yam Maya said that the latter reminds her to phone the father. “Everybody cries in the house when she asks us to call her dad,” Yam Maya added. The bereaved family is waiting for the body to observe mourning rituals.
Major Singh, 31, from Bishnudanda in Koldanda-5 had gone to Saudi Arabia five months ago. The family claimed that Major Singh´s body has remained in Alif National Hospital in Saudi Arabia due to lack of help from the Nepali Embassy there.
“Embassy officials had come and said that they would make arrangements to send the body within a week but have yet to do so,” Major Singh´s neighbor from Koldanda Jeet Bahadur Gaha, who is at the hospital attending the body, said. “Apparently nothing can be done without embassy´s help but they don´t seem interested,” Gaha added.
Gaha said National Prawn Company, where Major Singh had worked, maintains that the company would immediately send the body to Nepal after completion of paperwork at the embassy.
“I have gone to the embassy many times but they always say it will be done in a week. They don´t take calls even on cellphone,” Gaha complained. Gaha now fears that he may even lose his job as he has been forced to attend to the body for all these days.
The embassy had to forward the papers sent from Nepal to get permission from the Saudi police to send the body to Nepal. Necessary paperworks were completed in Nepal three days after his death but the embassy has yet to produce them.
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