Sita Dahal dies. Prime minister loses his wife and comrade of 54 years

Tributes pour in from home and abroad, including from Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi after the spouse and comrade-in-arms of Pushpa Kamal Dahal passes away at 69.

Sita Dahal, the wife of Prime Minister and Maoist Centre Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal and his “comrade-in-arms” for five and a half decades, died in Kathmandu on Wednesday morning. She was 69 and suffering from multiple conditions for the past few years. Norvic International Hospital, where she was taken to on Wednesday morning, cited a cardiac arrest as the cause of her death.