Mahendranagar (Kanchanpur), Oct 23:
While the Dashain festival is being celebrated across the country with a great
fervor, Nimbukheda of Bhimdutta Municipality-15 of Kanchanpur district was
immersed in tears today morning.
Nimbukheda was overcome with grief
after the dead body of Deepesh Bista, one among the 10 killed in Hamas militant
group's attack in Israel on October 7, reached his family in coffin. Bista had
been to Israel under the11-month 'Learn and Earn' training representing the
Agriculture Campus under the Sudurpaschim University at Tikapur, Kailali.
Bereaved mother Parbati had lost
her consciousness after she was broken the news of the demise of her
breadwinner son. She had come to Mahendranagar from her ancestral house at Lekam
rural municipality-5 in Darchaula district to receive the dead body.A bereaved
neighbour Suresh Pal recalled, "Deepesh excelled in academics from an
early age. When he lost his father at a tender age, he moved ahead with
audacity to become the sole breadwinner of the family. He was the bedrock
support to his widow mother."
"He kept having a daring
attitude and was hell-bent to uplift the living standards of his family. But
the situation turned out to be very heart-wrenching when he returned home in
coffin," he wailed.The mortal remains of Deepesh that was kept at Seti
Provincial Hospital at Dhangadhi was brought home today morning. He studied at
Global Academy at Mahendranagar from grade 1 to grade 10 in scholarship due to
his academic excellence, shared Surendra Raj Ojha, the Principal of the
School.
Ojha, who attended the final rites
of Deepesh on the bank of the Mahakali River, bemoaned, "The unimaginable
incident has drowned everyone us in the sea of sorrow."
Deepesh, who himself studied
Science in his higher secondary school had harboured a dream to see his younger
brother becoming a doctor. He had been shouldering household responsibilities
in his supple shoulders since he lost his father to cancer when he was 4 years
old.
His mother is a teacher at the
Latinath Secondary School in Darchula while his younger brother, Basanta Raj
Bista, is studying MBBS at the BP Koirala Institute of Health Sciences in
Dharan, Sunsari district.The bodies of four out of 10 Nepalis students killed
in Israel were flown to Nepal on last Friday and Saturday as well as Sunday.
All the dead bodies were handed over to their respective families in
Sudurpaschim Province at Dhangadhi Airport on Sunday evening. (RSS)