It might take 2-3 days, Ghazipur District Magistrate Aryaka Akhauri said.One each from the families of victims and village head have been sent to Nepal by road by the administration.
Highlights
The Uttar Pradesh police s unique method to raise awareness to discourage people from dumping bodies in the water.
It is also offering money to kin of the deceased to bear cremation expenses.
New Delhi: With several reports mentioning dead bodies of suspected COVID-19 victims washing up ashore in the states of Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, the police in UP has now come up with a unique method of raising awareness to discourage people from dumping bodies in the water.
The police is making announcement asking people to cremate their dead. Please do not perform water burial of bodies into Ganga river, but cremate them. If any person is unable to bear expenses of cremation,
931 Bodies buried in the sand on the banks of Ganga river, as coronavirus cases surge in Unnao district in Uttar Pradesh on May 13, 2021. PTI photo
Mukesh Ranjan
New Delhi, May 14
Taking note of the dead bodies being washed up along the Ganges in Uttar Pradesh (UP) and Bihar, the West Bengal government has asked officials in the Malda district, where the river enters the state, to keep a strict vigil at the river’s entry point.
In the meantime, district authorities in UP and Bihar too have been put on high alert to prevent a repeat of such incidents after a nudging by the National Mission for Clean Ganga and a notice issued by National Human Rights Commission to the two states after dead bodies were found floating in the Ganges.
Can t bear cremation expenses for the deceased? UP Police has a solution
Apart from this, if any person is unable to bear the expenses of cremation they will be provided with a sum of Rs 5000 to bear of the cremation. , File Photo
Updated: May 14, 2021, 11:35 PM IST
With many reports of dead bodies of suspected COVID-19 victims washing up ashore in the states of Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, the UP Police, on Friday, released a video to discourage people from unloading bodies in the water.
The police released a video message to spread awareness and ask people to not dump bodies in the river. ANI posted the video on Twitter which had them saying, Please do not perform water burial of bodies into Ganga river, but cremate them. If any person is unable to bear expenses of cremation, please inform us. We will make arrangements.
More bodies have been found in Brahmapur in the same district.
Patna, Bihar:
Dead bodies of suspected Covid patients continue to be spotted floating on the Ganga River, triggering shock and anger among locals in parts of Bihar and neighbouring Uttar Pradesh with no one to hold accountability. The frightening visuals of corpses have also sparked huge health concerns in rural areas, as the country fights a pandemic that affects lakhs every day.
After more than 100 decomposing bodies washed up on the banks of the Ganga in Bihar s Buxar in the past two days, more have been found in Brahmapur in the same district. The administration, however, has brushed off responsibility, saying the bodies have been found in villages that are in UP.