India Covid crisis: Bihar spreads net across Ganga to fish out floating bodies
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Patna high court wanted the government to set up a ‘war-room’ to continuously monitor the crisis.
The Bihar government has placed a net on the Ganga in Ranighat, bordering Uttar Pradesh, to prevent the continued flow of bodies of suspected Covid-19 victims from the other state.
Sanjay Jha, Bihar’s water resources minister tweeted that the last rites of 71 bodies of the victims were performed according to the protocols. “We have advised the UP administration to be vigilant,” he said. “Our district administration is keeping vigil too. Advise all to give respect to those dead.”
Indian Authorities Place Net Across Ganges River to Catch Dead Bodies Washing Ashore
On 5/13/21 at 4:42 PM EDT
More scenes out of India horrified the world on Monday after it was reported that dozens of dead bodies had drifted onto the banks of the River Ganges in Chausa village in the Buxar district of the eastern state of Bihar.
Now, authorities have apparently placed a net in the river to catch the corpses of the suspected COVID victims.
On Wednesday, Sanjay Kumar Jha, Bihar state minister of Water Resources (WRD) and Information and Public Relations (IPRD) tweeted an update on the handling of the bodies by the state and introduced the plan to spread a net in order to handle the influx of remains.
The banks of river Ganga in Chausa village, in Buxar. File
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71 bodies that were retrieved on Monday-Tuesday had washed ashore at downstream Chausa village from eastern U.P. districts: Bihar officials
A day after 71 bodies of suspected COVID-19 victims were retrieved from the Ganga at Chausa in Buxar district of Bihar, the authorities on Wednesday spread a big net in the river to catch bodies floating in from the neighbouring Uttar Pradesh.
Taking cognizance of the bodies being found floating in the river, the Patna High Court asked the State government to file an affidavit on it by Thursday.
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