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Multiple bodies were found buried in sand at two locations along the Ganga river in Unnao district in UP.
Several unidentified bodies were found floating in Ganga in UP and Bihar on Monday (May 10). Bihar Minister Sanjay Kumar Jha said on Wednesday that 71 bodies were taken out from the Ganges in Buxar district and their last rites were performed.
New Delhi: Day after scores of bodies were found floating in the Ganga river in eastern Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, now multiple bodies have been discovered buried in sand at two locations along the Ganga river in Unnao district in UP.
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.
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