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The past few weeks have been harrowing for the 49-year-old funeral arranger at Delhi’s Sarai Kale Khan cremation ground. There were days when his team cremated 75-80 bodies, all Covid victims.
Burials are cheaper as they don’t require wood. Also, most burials are done under the auspices of a mosque or a church, with little scope for extortion by middlemen.
Giriraj Solanki doesn’t know if it is the smoke rising from the pyres or the sight of numerous bodies placed on them that makes his eyes well up every now and then.
Delhi COVID crisis: Blind parents lose only child to virus; couple mourn death of five-month-old Pari
On Thursday evening, Jitender Singh Shunty , a former BJP MLA, buried Krishu in a corner of the Old Seemapuri cremation ground.
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The caretaker of crematorium, center, tries to console a man who lost his five months old child to COVID-19 as they perform a post burial ritual at the Seemapuri crematorium in New Delhi. (Photo | AP) By PTI
NEW DELHI: Nine-month-old Krishu, the only child to his blind parents, succumbed to COVID-19 at a Delhi government-run hospital on Thursday, while his father, battled the deadly virus at another hospital.
Blind parents lose infant boy to Covid as father continues his battle in Delhi
Blind parents lose infant boy to Covid as father continues his battle in Delhi
Nine-month-old Krishu, the only child to his blind parents, succumbed to COVID-19 at a Delhi government-run hospital, while his father, battled the deadly virus at another hospital.
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UPDATED: May 14, 2021 15:37 IST
This was the second time in two days that Singh was burying a child so young. (Representative image: PTI)
Nine-month-old Krishu, the only child to his blind parents, succumbed to COVID-19 at a Delhi government-run hospital, while his father, battled the deadly virus at another hospital.