Long lines of crammed ambulances, some carrying up to three dead patients, have formed before Lucknow’s two crematoriums since Thursday. Some of the ambulances are having to wait two days or even longer in the queue with the dead and their relatives. It’s not just costing the bereaved families tens of thousands of rupees in ambulance charges but causing an ambulance shortage in the city. At the root of the crisis, crematorium staff and relatives of the dead say, are two developments: n One of the two electric chambers at the Baikunth Dham crematorium and the only one at Gullala Ghat —each capable of incinerating a body in one hour — have developed snags and stopped functioning.