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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Uttar Pradesh: Rains Expose Mass Shallow Graves Along the Ganga as COVID-19 Rages

Uttar Pradesh: Rains Expose Mass Shallow Graves Along the Ganga as COVID-19 Rages

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published Published on May 15, 2021   modified Modified on May 16, 2021

-TheWire.in

More than 900 dead bodies have reportedly been buried along the river in Unnao alone last week.

New Delhi: The devastating second wave of the coronavirus pandemic is slowly turning into a horror story in India’s most populous state, Uttar Pradesh.

Days after Bihar’s Buxar district authorities said that at least 71 bodies of suspected COVID-19 victims from the neighbouring eastern UP were washed ashore at the banks of the river Ganga in the downstream Chausa village, several English and Hindi dailies reported that over 2,000 dead bodies in various UP districts were found to be hastily buried or abandoned along the banks of Ganga.

Similar ghastly sights were recorded in Ghaziabad, Kanpur, Unnao, Ghazipur, Kannauj and Ballia regions – reported to be worst-affected by the pandemic. According to one report by the Hindi daily Dainik Bhaskar, more than 900 dead bodies had been buried along the river in Unnao alone last week. It pegged the numbers to be 350 in Kannauj, 400 in Kanpur, and 280 in Ghazipur, even as it reported that such deaths have been shooting up in different districts of central and eastern UP.

When the Indian Express interviewed family members of some of the victims, they revealed that they either didn’t have enough financial resources or felt stigmatised to offer respectful cremations to the dead.

In Unnao, at least 200 such dead bodies were laid bare by shifting sand along the Ganga after heavy downpour this week. In Ghaziabad, at least five unclaimed bodies were found at the Gehmar ghat in Ghazipur after their barely three-feet burial pits were washed out by the river. Many dead bodies, possibly abandoned, were also found to be floating in the river.

“It was a sight that I have never seen before. We used boats to pull the bodies to the shore. The whole air was filled with the stench of death. The Gangaji turns here at Gahmar, so the bodies flowing downstream accumulate here. There could not have been fewer than 80 bodies,” a cremation ground worker Kamla Devi Dom told the daily.

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TheWire.in, 15 May, 2021, https://thewire.in/health/ganga-covid-19-bodies-uttar-pradesh


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