Pall of gloom descends on Sarabjit's native village

A pall of gloom today descended on Sarabjit Singh's native Bhikhiwind village as soon as the news of his death in a Lahore hospital spread with villagers closing all shops to protest the deadly attack on him.
Locals of the sleepy border village started to throng Singh's house as soon as they got the news about his death. However, Singh's family member are camping in Delhi since yesterday and are expected to reach Amritsar by evening.
Villagers downed all business establishments in the area to protest the brutal attack on Singh by inmates in a Lahore jail.
Singh died of cardiac arrest in a Lahore hospital in the wee hours today after being comatose for nearly a week following the assault by fellow inmates in a high-security Pakistani jail.

Sarabjit's wife Sukhpreet Kaur, daughters Poonam and Swapandeep Kaur and sister Dalbir Kaur, who went to Lahore on Tuesday to see him, returned to India yesterday.
The village had witnessed protests after the attack on Singh with locals raising anti-Pakistan slogans and burning effigies representing the neighbouring nation.
The villagers had also observed a bandh in protest against the attack on Sarabjit.