Woman clasps footwear of her relative who is under treatment at NCH in Surat
AHMEDABAD: At a Surat crematorium on Wednesday night, five bodies were cremated on a single makeshift pyre built to speed up the disposal of a rush of corpses. Elsewhere, in crematoriums across Gujarat, the constantly smouldering pyres were testimony to fatalities much higher than the state government s official Covid-19 death toll.
The Surat crematorium had three such oversized beds of wood meant to reduce the dead to ashes. Bulletins released by municipal corporations of four major cities officially state around 25 deaths each daily, but the mortalities are much higher.