Even as reports of violence and conflict from West Bengal’s riot-hit district continue to come in, this story is testimony to the strain of humanity and brotherhood still alive in the region.

In riot-hit Basirhat, one ambulance was used to transfer a Hindu and a Muslim man to a hospital in Kolkata. The person who held the saline drip for both of them was the son of the Hindu victim, Kartik Ghosh.

Ghosh’s son Prabhashish admitted both victims to the hospital. On Thursday morning, Kartik Ghosh, succumbed to his wounds at Kolkata’s RG Kar Medical College and Hospital.