Saturday, June 26, 2021

Rising waters expose Covid graves in India’s Ganges river

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Rising waters expose Covid graves in India’s Ganges river

The number of such graves has stoked suspicions that India's total deaths from the pandemic may be over a million, several times the official toll of almost 400,000


Municipal corporation workers prepare to cremate a body buried in a shallow grave on the banks of the Ganges river during the Covid-19 pandemic as they cremate other bodies also buried there to prevent them from floating downstream as water levels increase near Phaphamau Ghat, in Allahabad, June 25. Photo: AFP

Seasonal flooding of the Ganges is flushing out shallow graves and exposing some of the hundreds of bodies that were buried by the river during India’s recent Covid-19 surge.

Neeraj Kumar Singh, an official in the northern city of Allahabad, said that almost 150 bodies have had to be cremated in the past three weeks.

“We are not exhuming any bodies but only those which are floating up due to rising water levels are being cremated,” he said.

“The area is spread over a kilometre and our guess is there are around 500-600 bodies buried,” Singh told AFP.

“Every precaution is taken in dealing with the bodies while performing their final rites.”

Most are believed to have died from coronavirus in April and May when India was hit by a spike in infections that overwhelmed hospitals in many areas.

Some families were unable to afford firewood for traditional Hindu cremations so bodies were immersed in the Ganges or buried in sandbanks adjacent to the river.

These are now becoming flooded because of annual monsoon rains swelling the river, washing away the sand and revealing the corpses.

The number of such graves has stoked suspicions that India’s total deaths from the pandemic may be over a million, several times the official toll of almost 400,000.

7 comments:

  1. Too many vegetarians in Yindia. Need to eat more rubbish, like pigs, wild animals etc to get exposure to all kinds of bugs and virus. Then body’s immune system will be stronger.

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    1. You are a racist and insensitive idiot.

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    2. OMG...I think you do have something there..that's right, what doesn't kill you strengthen you, that kind of logic. You are the living proof ! The pig in you had consumed so much garbage of the Western propaganda that not only fired up your considerable hatred but all the hard facts on the ground, the finer points of truth and actual historical facts just simply got swept away in your haste to demonize and smear and attack. Good for you, the amount of rubbish in you do obviously make your banana that much stronger, hehe

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    3. Ayam not racist. I fully sapot Chinese or Yindian DPM anytime.

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    4. This blurred mfer is of different caste!

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  2. thats the problem when there is freepress, all lie exposed.

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