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Police personnel look on as bodies are being buried on the banks of river Ganga in Chausa village, in Buxar. PTI
Mukesh Ranjan
New Delhi, May 12
Recovery of floating dead bodies in the Ganges continued for the third consecutive day, as after Buxar (Bihar) and Ghazipur (UP), now Ballia witnessed similar disturbing scenes with the local administration claiming to have fished out 52 corpses from the river.
In the meantime, taking a serious note of such cases, the Director General of National Mission for Clean Ganga (NMCG) Rajiv Ranjan Mishra has written to authorities in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar asking them to take measures “immediately” to stop dumping of dead bodies in the river.