Author: Press Trust of India
Publication: Ndtv.com
Date: February 4, 2011
URL: http://www.ndtv.com/article/india/26-11-heros-uncle-sets-himself-on-fire-dies-83580
Mumbai attack martyr Major Sandeep Unnikrishnan's
uncle, who attempted immolation to protest the government's alleged apathy
in treating victims of the 26/11 strike, succumbed to injuries, police said
today.
56-year-old K Mohanan, who had suffered 98
per cent burn injuries, died at 11:55 PM last night at the Ram Manohar Lohia
Hospital here.
While undergoing treatment, he had also suffered
a heart attack.
Mohanan, a native of Kozhikode in Kerala,
had poured kerosene and set himself on fire outside Gate No 4 of Parliament
House near Vijay Chowk on Thursday.
Mohanan had told doctors that he was unhappy
at the way the victims of the Mumbai attacks were treated by the government.
"He was disturbed at the death of Sandeep. He wanted to feel the pain
Sandeep might have suffered when he
was shot at by the terrorists," the official said.
Mohanan, the younger brother of Sandeep's
father, had told his family that he was leaving for Ernakulam but instead
left for the national Capital, he said.
Sandeep's father K Unnikrishnan had said,
"We are happy with the way the government has treated our son. We have
no grievances. Mohanan was very fond of Sandeep. We thought that he had overcome
the grief but ended up doing this".
