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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | ‘Dead bodies all over’: Lucknow funerals tell a story starkly different from UP govt’s claims -Jyoti Yadav

‘Dead bodies all over’: Lucknow funerals tell a story starkly different from UP govt’s claims -Jyoti Yadav

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published Published on Apr 16, 2021   modified Modified on May 8, 2021

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On 15 April, Yogi govt's health bulletin said UP recorded 104 Covid deaths in 24 hrs. But Lucknow alone saw 108 funerals that day, and this is just at crematoriums & not cemeteries.

Lucknow: “Humne (kabhie) itni dead bodies to dekhi hi nahin hai… wo ghat par platform bane hain, woh khali pade rahte the, (par) aaj pair rakhne ki jagah nahin hai, charon aur lashein hi lashein.”

Amar Singh, 29, who works at Lucknow’s Mukti Dham cremation ground, had never seen “so many dead bodies”. The raised platform on the premises for funerals that would earlier see few pyres has no place for any one to even stand now, he said, adding: “It’s dead bodies all over.”

On Thursday, when this reporter reached Mukti Dham around 6 pm, four young men were stacking up logs of wood on one side of the ghat to prepare a row of funeral pyres for the next round of Covid cremations. They were not wearing proper PPE suits. Over 30 pyres were already burning, and more bodies were waiting to be consigned to flames.

Among the bodies due for last rites was that of Manoj. The man in his late 40s had only complained of “fever and body ache” before he died, his relative said. “We took him to every hospital we could reach, but he died,” said the relative, one among the hundreds present at the ghat to say final goodbyes to their loved ones.

He didn’t know if Manoj had Covid, for the latter died before a test could be done.

“Jo jinda hain, unke test ke result to aa nahin rahe, dead ka kahan se test karaate (Test results of those alive are not coming on time, where is the question of the dead being tested),” the relative said.

Manoj was cremated on a pyre meant for non-Covid bodies.

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ThePrint.in, 16 April, 2021, https://theprint.in/india/dead-bodies-all-over-lucknow-funerals-tell-a-story-starkly-different-from-up-govts-claims/640741/?fbclid=IwAR3cgaJOUZjldm_XhAMsKQqFn_BVKikCBqq6NiGusyRyrszQx5f223xyUs4


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