Former Bihar chief minister Sushil Modi has lashed out at the insensitive Mahagathbandhan government a day after the midnight violence in the Buxar district of the state in which a large group of farmers clashed with police who alleged that the police had assaulted villagers during a raid.
All night the bodies were taken out and post mortems were carried out, officials said. (File)
Patna:
As more bodies in the river surfaced on Tuesday in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, corpses were seen floating under a bridge near the border between the two states in an escalating human tragedy amid Covid. Officials in Bihar said the number of corpses that had washed up on the Ganga banks at Buxar on Monday was a staggering 71 and they blame Uttar Pradesh for them.
Visuals of bodies allegedly thrown over a bridge by ambulance drivers were widely shared on social media, where posts expressed shock at the insensitivity towards Covid victims and their families.
Bihar: Corpses Of Suspected Covid-19 Victims Found Floating In Ganga River
The incident was reported in Buxar’s Chausa block. Officials claim the bodies ‘floated’ to the district from neighbouring Uttar Pradesh
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Several semi-decomposed corpses of suspected Covid-19 victims were found floating in the Ganga river in Bihar’s Buxar district on Monday.
Local officials have said that the deceased were not natives of Bihar but rather belonged to Uttar Pradesh. So far, authorities have recovered 15 bodies.