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Shiv Sena’s Kashmir president Khaliq Bhat dies of COVID-19 at SMHS

Shiv Sena party’s Kashmir president and councillor municipality Budgam, Abdul Khaliq Bhat has died of COVID-19 at SMHS hospital in Srinagar on Friday morning.

Khaliq Bhatt. He was putting up at a Srinagar hotel for the last 7 years owing to security reasons. [Image source: Facebook/ Rukhsar Bashir]
An official told KNO that Abdul Khaliq Bhat son of Habibullah Bhat was hospitalised this week after he was found COVID-19 positive.

He said that Bhat was Shiv Sena party’s Kashmir president and a councillor from Ward No. 6 (Alipora) area of Chadoora.

He said that Bhat was a resident of Doyan Chadoora and residing at hotel dolphin for the last 7 years.

The official said that Bhat dies at the SMHS hospital and his corpse was yet to reach his native village.

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Kashmir News Observer (KNO) is a news agency in Jammu and Kashmir.

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Kashmir News Observer (KNO) is a news agency in Jammu and Kashmir.

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