A heart-wrenching video of a woman and two young men pushing the dead body of a man, wrapped in a white sheet, on a pushcart, had gone viral on social media on Saturday. It was later found that the incident took place in Athani taluk of Belagavi district in Karnataka, and was shot on 17 July.
According to reports, the woman was taking her husband’s body, and the two other men in the video are her two sons. Speaking to the media, the woman said that they were allegedly forced to use the pushcart as none of their relatives helped them over fears of contracting COVID-19.