India’s authorities found hundreds of bodies buried on the shrine of the Handes of the Gang River, reports Associated Press.
On Saturday, May 15, in Prajaguge, the city in Uttar Pradesh, 300 tel was found. According to officials, the dead may be victims of COVID-19.
In addition, each grave was covered with an orange, yellow or reddish cloth and looked posted in one direction. Several policemen were at the scene, but allowed the family that came on a small truck, to bury on the spot 75-year-old woman.
According to the senior police officer Kumar Singh, the authorities determined this area as a place of cremation of the victims of COVID-19 and noted that citizens will be banned to carry out burials along the river.
At the same time, the official representative of the Government of the state of the Navit Segal noted that the locals get rid of the dead or bury them in rivers due to religious beliefs. At the same time, their death have nothing to do with COVID-19, he believes.
May 10 in the Gang River found the bodies of dozens of people allegedly died of coronavirus. The inhabitants of Bihar in the East found at least 30 decomposed corpses. Some locals argue that they saw 100-150 bodies. According to one of the versions, the corpses into the river were discarded residents of coastal villages, as they could not afford the cremation, traditional for Hinduism. Later, India’s authorities demanded to immediately stop reset to the Holy River of the Died River for Hindu.