Now Half-Burnt Bodies Found Floating In Ganga Near Varanasi

Bodies have been floating in the river or washing up on the banks in towns in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar with disturbing regularity in the country's Covid crisis.

More bodies were found floating in the river Ganga in Uttar Pradesh today, this time in Varanasi. Some of the bodies were half-burnt when they washed up on the banks, possibly pulled off pyres and thrown into the river, officials say. Bodies have been floating in the river or washing up on the banks in towns in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar with disturbing regularity in the country's Covid crisis. Around six-seven corpses were spotted in Ramnagar in Varanasi in the morning and three of them were half-burnt. When the police were alerted, excavators were sent to the spot. The bodies were pulled out of the river and buried. The police also increased patrolling along the banks to check the dumping of corpses in the river.