More than 100 dead bodies were seen floating by a gatekeeper on the banks of the Ganges River in the Buxar district of Bihar, India. They are suspected to be COVID-19 fatalities.
"Data can be manipulated, but death cannot," a"Tragically we have come full circle on this. Started with Kumbha Mela in the holy Ganges and now with dead bodies in the same river! Persevering face,"This doesn't seem to be the first instance of bodies being dumped in the Ganges, though.
Buxar Subdivisional Magistrate K.K. Upadhyay told TOI that he saw several bodies floating in the neighboring district of Ghazipur, in the state of Uttar Pradesh, as well.contacted the Buxar district state office and district magistrate but did not hear back in time for publication. A woman looks at the burning funeral pyres of the patients who have died of COVID-19 from her house near a makeshift crematorium, in New Delhi, on May 9, 2021. India broke a fresh record on Thursday with over 412,000 new cases of COVID-19, as the total number of those infected, according to its Ministry of Health data, neared 20 million.
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