Ghazipur: At least 45 our bodies have been seen floating within the Ganga in Uttar Pradesh’s Ballia and Ghazipur districts, on Tuesday native residents revealed to the authorities. According to Ballia residents, not less than 45 our bodies have been seen floating on the Ujiyar, Kulhadia and Bharauli ghats within the (*45*) space.
However, the district authorities didn’t inform the precise variety of our bodies discovered there.
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About 71 our bodies have been fished out from the Ganga in Bihar’s Buxar, which is downstream the 2 UP districts, triggering suspicion that these could possibly be of COVID-19 sufferers.
Ballia District Magistrate Aditi Singh in an announcement mentioned some our bodies in unhealthy situation have been seen beneath the Ballia-Buxar bridge. She mentioned the Subdivisional Magistrate (Sadar) and the circle officer are probing the matter and the final rites of the useless have been carried out with due respect.
Superintendent of Police Vipin Tada mentioned he didn’t know what number of our bodies have been discovered.
“The bodies were old. In Bihar, there is a tradition of disposing of dead bodies in the river,” he mentioned, including that seeing the wind path, it appears the our bodies got here from Bihar.
Meanwhile, our bodies have been seen floating in Ghazipur’s Gahmar and Bara villages, in line with residents there.
Ghazipur District Magistrate Mangala Prasad Singh informed PTI that they have been knowledgeable on Monday that our bodies have been seen floating within the river, following which probe groups have been constituted.
“On Monday evening, we spotted a body in Bara village and it was cremated with full respect,” he mentioned, including that their groups are patrolling the villages and urging folks to tell the district administration if they’re going through any downside in getting the final rites of their family carried out.
Singh mentioned officers from the Bihar’s Buxar had come right here and the district administration has launched a probe into the matter.
Earlier, residents in UP’s Hamirpur district had noticed 5 our bodies floating within the Yamuna, making a scare that these have been of COVID sufferers, a fear dismissed by the authorities.
“After speaking to people and looking at the bodies, prima facie, it can be said these were not of COVID-19 patients as these were draped in a traditional manner and no body was wrapped as done in the case of COVID-19 victims,” Hamirpur District Magistrate Gyaneshwar Tripathi had mentioned in an announcement.
After the our bodies have been noticed in Buxar, Bihar’s Water Resources Minister Sanjay Kumar, a key aide of Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, had come out with a collection of tweets, asserting that the our bodies had flown downstream from neighbouring Uttar Pradesh.
“The Bihar government is seized of the matter of unfortunate case of floating mortal remains in river Ganga… The bodies have floated into Bihar from UP,” mentioned Jha, including medical doctors have confirmed upon autopsy that the deaths had taken place “four-five days” in the past.
