Dozens of Covid-19 bodies were dumped on the banks of the Ganges River. Residents have no money to pay for cremation

At least 40 bodies lay on the banks of the Ganges River in northern India.The finding near the border between the states of Bihar and Uttar Pradesh was confirmed to the BBC on Monday (10/05) yesterday.

It is not clear how the dozens of bodies ended up on the banks of the Ganges. Even so, a number of local mass media estimate that they are victims of Covid-19.

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Several local residents and journalists told the BBC that there are families who have no choice but to put the bodies of their relatives who died from Covid-19 into the river.

The reason was that they lacked wood for cremation. The funeral costs have also increased recently.

Several mass media reports even said that the number of bodies found at the location reached more than a hundred.

Referring to his physical condition, the corpse was alleged to have been on the banks of the Ganges for several days.

"It is possible that these bodies were taken out of Uttar Pradesh," a local official, Ashok Kumar, told the BBC.
Kumar said that all the bodies would be buried or cremated.

According to a number of local officials, dozens of bodies were seen swollen and burned.

There are allegations, as written by India's NDTV news site, that the body ended up on the banks of the Ganges after going through a cremation ceremony for Covid-19 victims along the river.

Regarding the situation that prompted a number of families to lay the bodies of their relatives on the banks of the Ganges River, a resident named Chandra Mohan accused, "Private hospitals looted public money.

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"Ordinary citizens cannot pay priests or spend more money on cremation processions by the river.

"They asked for 2,000 rupees (around Rp. 386,234) so ​​that the family could be removed from the ambulance. The river was the last solution so many people buried their bodies in the river," said Mohan.
Prem Swaroopam, head of the Buxar City Council, said that his party had begun investigating the disposal of the bodies to the riverbank. He also said that the public would not be charged for the cremation.

"We have formed three teams to stop the disposal of these bodies. We have also received instructions from the government that the cremation of the bodies of Covid victims will be carried out free of charge," he said as reported by the Times of India.

A resident in Bihar said local residents were worried that the large number of bodies in the Ganges River would trigger Covid-19 infection.

"The situation is very sad. There are more than 150 bodies floating in the river. Residents in Katgharwa, Kamharia and Causa are both shocked and worried," he told reporters as quoted by the Times of India.

"People are filled with fear even just to attend the cremation procession around this river," he said.
Uttar Pradesh is India's most populous state.

The second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic has hit several parts of India. The number of deaths has increased significantly in recent weeks. Most of the country's crematoriums are running out of space.

India is now the epicenter of the global pandemic.

More than 22.6 million cases of Covid-19 have emerged in India. Meanwhile, the death toll has reached 246,116 cases, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University, United States.

Health experts believe the number of deaths due to Covid-19 in India is actually much higher than that, with at least 40 bodies lying on the banks of the Ganges River in northern India.

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It was almost midnight, and Jitender Singh Shunty had just spent another day cremating the victims who died from the coronavirus.

Gender now sleeps in a crematorium parking lot in northeast Delhi, India's national capital. His wife and two sons have tested positive for the virus and are being isolated at home.

"We have carried out the mass cremation of 103 bodies today, and 42 of them were taken from houses across the city," he told the BBC in a telephone interview.

"The official [announced] death toll does not include people dying at home ... so many of them don't even receive their coronavirus test results until after death."
Jitender is the head of a non-profit medical service that helps police cremate bodies that the family does not claim and die from suicide or accidents.

The gender team of 18 volunteers has also assisted in the final funeral rites for the victims of the coronavirus since the pandemic struck last year.

"During the first wave of the coronavirus 

, we helped cremate a total of 967 bodies. But now, we have exceeded that number in just 15 days, "he said.

"Initially, most of them were elderly people who succumbed to the virus, but now it is very worrying to see so many young people losing their lives."

'Lying dead at home'
Gender receives hundreds of calls every day from affected families, both at home and abroad.

"This afternoon, for example, I received a call from Toronto, Canada, and this foreigner needed help cremating his younger brother who died at home (in India) the day before," he recalls.

"She doesn't know what else to do. Her father is in the same house, but is over 80 years old and has visual impairments."