Thiruvananthapuram, April 16 (). The wife of a Keralite who was killed in a shootout between paramilitary forces and the Sudanese army in Khartoum has appealed to the Indian government to help retrieve the body from the flat where they were staying.
Speaking to reporters by telephone from Khartoum in Sudan, Saibela said on Sunday that the ambulance that had come to collect the body of her husband, Albert Augustine, was not allowed to remove his body as fighting continued in the area.
Cybela was on holiday in Khartoum with her husband. She said that she is now living with neighbors and her daughter in the basement of the flat building, no one has eaten food for the last 24 hours.
Meanwhile, Union Minister of State for External Affairs V. Muraleedharan said the government is taking steps to bring back Augustine’s mortal remains to India and efforts are on to save his family.
He was a former soldier and was working as a security officer in a private company in Khartoum for the past few months. He was killed by a bullet during fighting between paramilitary forces and the army in the Sudanese capital on Saturday night.
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