In a shocking case of negligence, Pakistan International Airlines staff left behind at the airport here the body of a six-year-old boy which was to be sent to Pakistan-occupied Gilgit Baltistan on a flight on which his parents travelled, a media report said on Saturday. The deceased was receiving treatment at a hospital in Rawalpindi for a tumour when he passed away on Thursday, the Dawn newspaper reported.
His body was to be transported on Friday through a PIA flight to his native village of Katshi in the Pakistan-occupied Gilgit Baltistan region for burial.
The deceased’s parents, who confirmed their tickets on a PIA flight from Islamabad to Skardu city on Friday morning, brought the body to the Islamabad airport at 6 am and completed the cargo procedure for the body.