Shaik Muzammil Ahmed, a 25-year-old Hyderabadi student, passed away in Canada from cardiac arrest.
Since December 2022, Ahmed from Telangana has been enrolled in Conestoga College‘s Waterloo Campus in Kitchener City, Ontario, to pursue a master’s degree in information technology.
Although he had been experiencing a fever for the past week, his friend called his family on Friday to inform them that he had passed away from cardiac arrest.
The incident was shared on social media by Majlis Bachao Tehreek (MBT), a political organization located in Telangana, and its leader, Amjad Ullah Khan.
On the social media site X, Amjad Ullah Khan “One Shaik Muzammil Ahmed-25 years from Hyderabad, Telangana State pursuing Masters in IT from Conestoga College, Waterloo Campus in Kitchener City in Ontario, Canada since Dec 2022 was suffering from fever since last one week, but his family received a call from his friend that he died due to cardiac arrest today.”
“On hearing this news his parents and the entire family is in a state of shock and has request you to kindly ask @HCI_Ottawa & @TorontoCGI to send his mortal remains back to Hyderabad as soon as possible, for more details please contact Waliuddin on +1 (647) (786) 5940 or his uncle Mohammed Amjad on 9618160740,” he said.
Family writes to S Jaishankar
Amjad Ullah Khan, the head of Majlis Bachao Tehreek (MBT), stated that the family of Shaik Muzammil Ahmed wrote to S Jaishankar, the minister of external affairs, requesting assistance in returning his body to India.
Tagging Jaishankar, the MBT leader wrote on X (formerly known as Twitter): “One Shaik Muzammil Ahmed-25 years from Hyderabad, Telangana State pursuing Masters in IT from Conestoga College, Waterloo Campus in Kitchener City in Ontario, Canada since Dec 2022 was suffering from fever since last one week, but his family received a call from his friend that he died due to cardiac arrest today.”
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