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Last rites of farmer killed in wild gaur attack held at Kakkayam

The final rites of P.D. Abraham of Kakkayam, who was killed in a wild gaur attack on March 5, were held at St. Sebastians Church in Koorachundu grama panchayat of Kozhikode on March 7 (Thursday) evening.

Mar Remigios Inchananiyil, Thamarassery Bishop, led the rituals. The body of the 70-year-old farmer was earlier kept at the parish hall for the public to pay their last respects. M.K. Raghavan, MP, and K.M. Sachindev, MLA, among others, were present.

Earlier, the body was taken in a procession from Koorachundu town to his house in Kakkayam. The body was handed over to relatives after post-mortem and police inquest proceedings at the Government Medical College Hospital, Kozhikode, by around 1 p.m.

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