Ahmedabad: The joy of a family’s wedding in Bhavnagar city of Gujarat has turned into mourning when the young bride died of a heart attack during wedding rituals.
Hetal, the eldest daughter of Gina Rathod of Subhashnagar area of Bhavnagar city, was to get married to Vishal Ranabhai of Nari village.
In the evening, the marriage procession had reached Bhavnagar and other wedding rituals were underway.
Meanwhile, when Hetal started feeling dizzy, she went to breathe on the roof in the open air. Hetal fell unconscious on the roof. The family rushed her to the hospital, where doctors declared her dead. Doctors said she had suffered a heart attack.
The family then decided to marry her younger sister with groom and continued the wedding rituals while Hetal’s body was kept in a cold storage of the hospital.
After completing the marriage rituals, family cremated her body. This news has shocked the people and received mixed response on the social media as many felt sad for the dead bride and some slammed the family for marrying her younger sister to groom.