Floating dead bodies in Ganga: Ghazipur and Buxar district magistrates play blame games
Ganga banks
PATNA, May 11: District magistrates (DM) of Ghazipur in Uttar Pradesh and Buxar in Bihar are blaming each other on the recovery of 84 bodies from the Ganga banks. Mangla Prasad Singh, DM of Ghazipur today claimed only 13 bodies were found on the banks of Ganga in his district and they had come from Bihar.
However, Buxar DM, Aman Sameer contradicted his Ghazipur counterpart and claimed most of the 71 bodies found floating at Mahadev Ghat in Chausa block were from Uttar Pradesh.
DM of Buxar and SP, Neeraj Kumar Singh, visited Chausa late Monday night and retrieved 71 bodies. All bodies found at Mahadeva Ghat were buried on the banks of the Ganga by using JCB machines. DM said medical staff have collected DNA samples and swabs of the bodies for identification. He admitted majority of them must be of Corona victims.
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Screengrab from the video of Chausa river bank where dozens of bodies were seen floating near the bank of the river Ganges (Screengrab/Video)
Dozens of bodies have been pulled out from the banks of Ganges river in two bordering states of Northern India suspected to be of Covid-19 patients as the country’s deadly second wave continues tro ravage the country.
On Tuesday, 100 bodies were found floating in in the Ganges in Uttar Pradesh, northern India, according to media reports. That came after similar sightings in the state of Bihar, in the village Chausa, where bodies of over 40 people were pulled out from the river on Monday.
Now, blame games begin over floating bodies
Patna
District magistrates of Ghazipur in Uttar Pradesh and Buxar in Bihar are blaming each other over the recovery of 84 bodies from the Ganga banks. Mangla Prasad Singh, DM of Ghazipur, on Tuesday claimed only 13 bodies were found on the banks of Ganga in his district and they had come from Bihar.
However, Buxar DM Aman Sameer contradicted his Ghazipur counterpart and claimed most of the 71 bodies found floating at Mahadev Ghat in Chausa block were from UP.
DM of Buxar and SP, Neeraj Kumar Singh, visited Chausa late Monday night and retrieved 71 bodies. All bodies found at Mahadeva Ghat were buried on the banks of the Ganga by using JCB machines. The DM said medical staff have collected DNA samples and swabs of the bodies for identification. He admitted majority of them must be of Corona victims.
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PATNA/BUXAR: A day after scores of decomposed and half-burnt corpses floating down the Ganga washed ashore at Chausa village in Buxar, officials of Bihar and neighbouring UP engaged in a blame game over which state was responsible for dumping bodies in the river.
The Bihar government said 71 bodies had been retrieved and cremated after autopsies that failed to confirm if the deaths were caused by Covid-19. Union jal shakti minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat termed the dumping of bodies in the Ganga “unfortunate” and a matter that must be investigated.
Tagging Bihar CM Nitish Kumar and his Uttar Pradesh counterpart Yogi Adityanath in a tweet on Tuesday, he said, “The Modi government is committed to the cleanliness of ‘mother’ Ganga. This incident is unexpected. The states concerned should take immediate cognisance.”