Weeping boy mourning father's death moves India to raise $56,000 in one day

The image of an 11-year-old boy weeping and mourning his father's death recently compelled Indians to band together and raise money for him and his family.

The sight was captured by Shiv Sunny, a journalist of the Hindustan Times. He took to Twitter last Sept. 16 to share the photo of the boy crying beside his father's body inside a crematorium.

"The boy walked up to his father's body at a crematorium, moved the sheet from the face, held the cheeks with both hands, just said 'Papa' & began sobbing," wrote Sunny.

from Asia
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