Indian medical student dies in China, distraught family seeks help

Hyderabad: The family of the 22-year-old medical student who died in China seeks the help of government to bring back his body.

Abdul Sheikh, who had been doing internship in China after studying medicine for the past five years, died of an illness.

However details of the reasons for death are not yet confirmed.

Sheikh was in India recently before he returned to China on December 11.

His economically weak family has requested the foreign ministry for help to bring back his body, according to NDTV.

On reaching China he observed eight-day mandatory eight-day isolation before interning with Qiqihar Medical University in northeast China's Heilongjiang province.

But he reportedly fell in and was admitted to the intensive care unit, where he died.