Pakistan student in Wuhan misses father's funeral, anxiety grows


  • World
  • Tuesday, 11 Feb 2020

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - From his dormitory in the locked-down Chinese city of Wuhan, PhD student Hassan spoke to his father in Pakistan for the last time on Thursday. The 80-year-old begged him to come home.

The next day, Hassan's father died of a heart ailment.

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