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All the bodies recovered from the Ganga river in Ghazipur and Ballia districts were cremated and investigation has been initiated to find out where the bodies had been immersed in the river.
Ballia district Magistrate Aditi Singh said that Sub-divisional Magistrate Sadar and Circle Officer Sadar spearheaded a search operation on reports of decayed bodies piling under Ballia-Buxar bridge in the Ganga under Narahi police station area.
The official, however, did not reveal the exact number of bodies found. The bodies were found floating on the river on Monday evening and officials found decayed dead bodies in large numbers near Ujiyar and Bharauli under Narahi police station of Ballia.
View of Harishchandra Ghat in Varanasi on Tuesday evening
VARANASI: The rush of bodies at the Manikarnika and Harischandra ghats in Varanasi has eased as Covid cases and casualties have come down, but a sudden increase in sighting of bodies in the Ganga in downstream district Ghazipur on the interstate border near Buxar district of Bihar has sparked panic among locals.
Ghazipur officials swung into action after bodies were found near Chausaghat, Buxar following which officials of Bihar claimed the corpses had flowed down from UP.
As villagers panicked suspecting threat of outbreak of epidemic due to rotting bodies and sounded alarm, the district magistrates of Ghazipur and Buxar rushed SDMs, Ramesh Maurya of Sevarai and K K Pathak of Buxar for fact finding.