May 04, 2021
Jitender Singh Shunty makes a note of cremations that his organisation has conducted in New Delhi
South China Morning Post
Suited up in blue protective gear and wearing a face shield under his bright yellow turban, Jitender Singh Shunty sprays disinfectant on bodies at the Seemapuri cremation ground in northeast Delhi.
He has to be quick as corpses are arriving faster than they can be burned. Families and friends of the deceased, who had tried to find hospital beds and oxygen to save their relatives, are thin on patience.
“We are doing everything we can to help these grieving families at least have a decent funeral of their loved ones,” he said as he hurried to attend to another ambulance which had just arrived with two bodies.
In Photos: An Endless Cycle of Heartbreak and Grief at Delhi s Seemapuri Crematorium
For seven consecutive days, Delhi has recorded more than 300 deaths due to the coronavirus.
A crematorium worker watches the burning pyres.
Clouds of smoke float in the air.
A family of five arrives. The fifth member, wrapped in a white plastic bag, lies on a stretcher. Four men from the family hold the ends of the bier and navigate their way through the scorching crematorium in Seemapuri, New Delhi.
Itâs the 80th body to have arrived at the site today. “More are expected to come,” says a worker at the site.
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Jyot Jeet has pledged to care for all the dead as if they were his own family, performing traditional if abbreviated funeral rites at a makeshift crematorium in India’s capital.
Sometimes, the devastation overwhelms him. This happened on a recent morning, when he wept alongside a woman as she stood next to the funeral pyre of her husband and their young son.
The father and son had both died of Covid-19.
“It’s a moment that will haunt me forever,” Jeet, 27, told NBC News over the phone from the Seemapuri crematorium, a temporary facility set up to deal with the tsunami of Covid-19 deaths in New Delhi. “People die in front of our eyes every day. These are people who should have been saved.”
Mass cremations begin as India s capital faces deluge of COVID-19 deaths
Reuters | Apr 22, 2021 09:49 PM EDT
A mass cremation of victims who died due to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), is seen at a crematorium ground in New Delhi, India (Photo : REUTERS/Danish Siddiqui)
Delhi resident Nitish Kumar was forced to keep his dead mother s body at home for nearly two days while he searched for space in the city s crematoriums - a sign of the deluge of death in India s capital where coronavirus cases are surging.
On Thursday Kumar cremated his mother, who died of COVID-19, in a makeshift, mass cremation facility in a parking lot adjoining a crematorium in Seemapuri in northeast Delhi.
IndiaMass cremations begin as Indiaâs capital faces deluge of COVID-19 deaths
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A mass cremation of victims who died due to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), is seen at a crematorium ground in New Delhi, India, April 22, 2021. Picture taken with a drone. REUTERS/Danish Siddiqui
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Delhi resident Nitish Kumar was forced to keep his dead motherâs body at home for nearly two days while he searched for space in the cityâs crematoriums - a sign of the deluge of death in Indiaâs capital where coronavirus cases are surging.
On Thursday Kumar cremated his mother, who died of COVID-19, in a makeshift, mass cremation facility in a parking lot adjoining a crematorium in Seemapuri in northeast Delhi.