Bandipora (Jammu and Kashmir): Setting an example of brotherhood, Muslim neighbours of a Kashmiri Pandit family on Friday performed the last rites of an elderly woman who passed away at her home in north Kashmir's Bandipora district.
Wife of late Kashi Nath Bhat, Ratan Rani Bhat died on Thursday night in Ajar area of Bandipora.
As soon as the news of her death spread in the locality, the Muslim neighbours gathered together and arranged for Rani Bhat's last rites.
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Speaking with ETV Bharat, Bhat's son thanked the neighbours and said that even though it is a Muslim-majority locality, he and his family members never felt isolated.
"I am grateful to the neighbours here. I am happy that we never left Kashmir. We have been living here for years and there is peace and brotherhood among us," he said.
The local Muslims shouldered Bhat's coffin and arranged wood for her cremation. Several locals visited her residence to express condolences.
