Ranchi: The flood situation in Sahebganj worsened on Thursday after rising waters of the Ganges river inundated one more panchayat and partially affec.
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The bodies buried or floating on the ghats in UP are not just on account of the massive under reporting of COVID-19 deaths. The state’s apathy is to blame.
Scores of families are burying their dead on riverbanks, just as many others are dumping the bodies in rivers, underlining how a high Covid death toll has left crematory space and firewood scarce and too expensive.
Residents of the adjoining villages of Shivrajpur and Rautapur in Unnao district, central Uttar Pradesh, found half-a-dozen decomposing corpses half-buried on the Ganga’s banks at the contiguous Khereshwar Ghat and Buxar Ghat on Thursday afternoon.
Storm and rain had swept away the top layers of the sand and revealed the bodies.
After hours of digging under the police’s watch, the body count had risen to 175 by Friday morning. Most of the dead had been buried about two feet under the sand.