CHENNAI (Reuters) – An Indian man who worshipped https://www.reuters.com/article/us-india-usa-trump-fans-idUSKBN20C1EH Donald Trump and was upset by the information of the U.S. president contracting COVID-19 died of a cardiac arrest on Sunday, an official from his village and police mentioned.
Bussa Krishna, who had mentioned his devotion for Trump started greater than 4 years in the past when the chief appeared to him in a dream, had days in the past posted a tearful video on his Fb web page wishing for his idol’s restoration from the viral illness that has killed greater than 1 million folks worldwide.
Trump revealed on Oct. 2 that he had examined constructive for COVID-19 and spent three nights within the hospital for therapy. He mentioned on Sunday he had totally recovered and was as a result of resume campaigning on Monday forward of the Nov. 3 U.S. election.
Venkat Goud, the pinnacle of Krishna’s native Konney village and a detailed pal, mentioned he was “depressed” that Trump and his spouse Melania had received the illness.
“It is unhappy that he handed away with out assembly his hero,” Goud informed Reuters by cellphone. “He had tried so laborious to satisfy him” when Trump had come to India in February.
Raghupathi, a neighborhood police officer, mentioned Krishna had left the village over two weeks in the past to satisfy his dad and mom in one other a part of the identical southern state of Telangana.
“It’s there that he handed away as a result of a cardiac arrest,” Raghupathi, who goes by one title, mentioned.
Reuters couldn’t instantly contact Krishna’s relations or the hospital the place he was taken to. Native media mentioned Krishna was in his late thirties.
(Reporting by Sudarshan Varadhan; Modifying by Lisa Shumaker)
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