Locals Carry Pregnant Woman On Shoulders, Horse Through Knee-Deep Snow In Kupwara

Kupwara: Villagers in Budnamal area of north Kashmir’s Kupwara district were “forced” to carry a pregnant woman on their shoulders for some distance and then on a horse to the hospital in knee-deep snow on Saturday.

The woman’s husband Abdul Jabar Malik said that due to closure of Budnamal  road he along with other persons carried her to the hospital through the snow on a horse.

“Due to the emergency, we carried her on shoulders in a cot up to 4 kilometers till Babyi Top from where we ferried her on a horse,” he said.

The locals urged authorities to clear the snow clogged roads leading to the in habitation to avoid any difficulty to the patients and commoners alike in immediate future.(GNS)