An elderly man’s body was dumped on the roadside by ambulance staffs near the Paikali bridge in Baleswar after attendants of the deceased failed to pay the ambulance charges.
The elderly man, identified as Rehman Khan of Allahabad in Uttar Pradesh, was working as a daily wager at Chintamanipada in Soro. On Wednesday, when he got sick an acquaintance of the man brought him to the District Headquarters Hospital.
The man died on Thursday morning at the hospital while undergoing treatment.
Staff of the privately-run ambulance, who carried the body from the hospital to the deceased’s house, asked for money.
But Rehman’s attendant was unable to pay the vehicle’s charges following which the emergency service staff threw the body on the National Highway and fled.