Correspondent
HYDERABAD, August 11 2020 (HS): After death of an Indian-origin woman in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, her daughter Sadeqa Begum, who is a resident of Hyderabad, has requested the Government of India to inquire about her death and take necessary steps to arrange her final rites. Sadeqa Begum said that her mother, Rehana Begum, died earlier this month and she is unable to connect with her relatives in Riyadh which is why she wants help from the government.
While speaking to media she said, that she has come to know that her mother's body s at mortuary of the Shamashi Hospital in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. She said she has requested the Government of India to inquire into the death of her mother and take necessary steps for her burial in Saudi Arabia, and make arrangements to shift her belongings to Hyderabad.
Sadequa Begum said that her mother Rehana Begum of Hyderabad, Telangana married a Saudi National Fawaz Abdullah Al Qahtani, a Saudi, in 1990 after the death of her first husband Syed Khasim. “I am the only daughter of my mother from her first marriage as she didn't have any children from her second marriage.
Recently, on July 24, her husband also died in a road accident in Riyadh,” she further said. Sadequa Begum said that she had last spoken to her mother on July 30. Later on, July 31, when she called her mother, some nurse picked up the phone and said that her mother has been admitted to a hospital.
On August 1, Sadequa Begum got a WhatsApp message that her mother had died.
“Since then I am trying to contact other family members but there is no response from them, and no one is responding to my calls,” she added.