On Tuesday morning, a funeral procession was taken from the house to Bhujelaghat, attended by thousands of people.
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Relatives, neighbors and locals had started gathering at their homes since Tuesday morning. The body of Bipin Joshi of Bichpuri, Bhimdatta Municipality-3, Kanchanpur, who died while being held hostage by the Palestinian militant group Hamas, was brought home late on Monday evening. The funeral procession started from the house around 8 am. When the funeral procession began, there was a lot of crying in the house. From mother Padma, sister Pushpa and father Mahananda, all the relatives started crying.
अगाडी प्रहरीको गाडी, बिचमा शव वाहन र पछाडी मलामीहरु । बिचपुरी टोलबाट महेन्द्रनगर बसपार्कसम्म शव काँधमा बोकेर पुर्याइयो । त्यसपछि शव वाहनमा राखेर महाकाली नदी किनार भुजेला घाटसम्म पुर्याइयो । शव यात्रालाई बाटोमै रोकेर स्थानीय श्रद्धाञ्जलीसँगै अगरबत्ती दिइरहेका थिए ।
शवयात्रामा नेपालका लागि इजरायली राजदूत स्मुलिक इराई बाससहित दूतावासका कर्मचारीहरू सहभागी थिए । यसै गरी पुर्व परराष्ट्रमन्त्री एनपी साउद, विघटित प्रतिनिधिसभाका सदस्य तारालामा तामाङल लगायता स्थानीय तहका जनप्रतिनिधिहरूसमेत शवयात्रामा पुगेका थिए ।
शवयात्रामा पुगेका सबैको अनुहार मलिन देखिन्थे । महाकाली बगरमा सबै शवको अवस्था, परिवारको अवस्था आदीबारे चासो व्यक्र गरिरहेका थियो ।
दुई वर्षदेखि हमास समूहले बन्धक बनाएको विपिनको गत सोमबार मृत्यु भएको पुष्टि भएको थियो । हमास समूहले सोमबार नै इजरायललाई शव हस्तान्तरण गरेको हो । शव हस्तान्तरण गरेको एक सातापछि सोमबार काठमाण्डौं पुर्याइएको थियो भने काठमाडौंबाट नेपाली सेनाका स्काई ट्रकमा धनगढी पुर्याइएको थियो । त्यसपछि धनगढी उपमहानगरपालिकाको शव वाहनबाट सोमबार अबेर साँझ घरमा पुर्याइएको हो ।
सुदूरपश्चिम विश्वविद्यालयको कृषि संकायका ४९ जना विद्यार्थीहरु दुई वर्षअघि ‘लर्न एन्ड अर्न’ कार्यक्रम अन्तरगत इजरायल पुगेका थिए । उनीहरु इजरायल पुगेको महिना दिन नपुग्दै हमासको आक्रमणमा परेका हुन् । हमासको आक्रमणमा परेर १० विद्यार्थीको मृत्यु भएको थियो भने विपिनलाई बन्धक बनाइएको थियो । बन्धक बनाएकै अवस्थामा विपिनको मृत्यु भएको हो ।
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