New Delhi –
Ganges River of India returned to reveal hundreds of buried corpses. There are allegations that the bodies died in April and May as India was struggling with the surge in COVID-19 cases.
The seasonal flooding that is now hitting the Ganges River has caused the shallow graves there to erode. Hundreds of bodies are now seen like lined up on the river bank.
To deal with these findings, cremation has begun. Even in the last three weeks, more than 150 bodies have been cremated.
“We are not exhuming bodies but only bodies that are floating due to rising water levels being cremated,” said Neeraj Kumar Singh, an official in the northern city of Allahabad.
Mentioned, there are about 500 to 600 bodies still buried in Ganges River until now.
“The area is spread over a kilometer (half a mile) and we estimate there are around 500-600 bodies buried,” Singh said.
Most of the bodies are believed to have been victims of COVID-19 in April and May, when India was hit by a spike in cases or because families could not afford firewood for traditional Hindu cremations and the bodies were buried in the Ganges River.
The number of shallow graves such as those found in the Ganges raises suspicion from various parties. Suspected total death di India the pandemic may be more than a million, several times the official figure of nearly 400,000 deaths.
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