Tragedy noted in India when a five-year-old boy, who had been diagnosed with cancer in the final stage, he drowned, as his family tried to cure him with water from the river Ganges. Police say the childsuffering from leukemia, drowned when his parents plunged him into the river that runs through northern India in a precautionary attempt to cure him.
The family had reportedly traveled from their home in Delhi to Haridwar on Tuesday to perform the ceremony and pray, according to Daily Mail. The taxi driver said the child was accompanied by his parents and a relative, identified by local media as his aunt. The driver said the boy looked “extremely unwell” and that doctors in the capital had given up trying to save him, leading the family to take more desperate measures.
Video shows the parents chanting prayers while the his aunt was holding it under water. Bystanders reportedly told his family to stop, seeing as they continued to hold the boy under the water for longer than would be safe, water considered sacred to Hindus. Some intervened when the family refused, while the aunt tried to attack those trying to pull the child out of the water.
The child was pulled from the water and taken to the hospital, where doctors officially announced that passed away. At another point, the boy's aunt is seen shouting that the child will come back to life. All family members were taken into custody for questioning, police said.
Haridwar city police chief Swantantra Kumar said: “It seems that they brought the boy here because they believed that Ganga snan [κάθαρση] would heal him.” Central to Indian history, the Ganges River has enduring religious and cultural significance for Hindus. Devotees bathe in the river and consider it to be the embodiment of all holy waters in religious mythology. The river is believed to have spiritual properties, able to wash away sin and absorb impurities. To die on the banks of the river or to be cremated nearby is said to ensure immediate salvation.
Source: News Beast
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