New Delhi: Fana remnants Danish photo journalist Siddiqui, who was killed in Afghanistan, was taken to Delhi on Sunday night and will be buried in the grave of Jamia Millia Islamia, university officials said.
“Air Indian flights carrying the remnants of Fana Denmark Siddiqui landed at Delhi Airport,” said a university official.
Siddiqui is Alumnus Jamia Millia Islamia.
Siddiqui, who won the Pulitzer prize in 2018, worked for the Reuters news agency and was killed on Friday in the city of Spin Boldak, near the border with Pakistan.
He was embedded with Afghan special forces at the time of his death.
Previously on that day, the university said in a statement, “Jamia Millia Millia Islamia (JMI) Chancellor’s representatives received a family request for the Danish journalist Journalist Siddiqui to bury her body at the Tomb of JMI which was intended exclusively for university employees, their pair of children.” Siddiqui’s father Akhtar Siddiqui is the Dean of the Faculty of Education there.
Danish mortal remnants Siddiqui arrived in Delhi
