Now, dogs feed on half-burnt corpses at Uttarakhand riverbank

Visuals from Kedar ghat on the banks of river Bhagirathi in Uttarkashi in Uttrakhand. Pic/ANI

Grisly videos have emerged showing stray dogs eating human corpses at Kedar Ghat on the banks of river Bhagirathi in Uttarkashi, Uttrakhand. Locals said parts of bodies, some of them half burnt, had drifted onto the bank after a rise in Bhagirathi's water level due to rainfall over the past few days.

"I was doing some painting here yesterday and saw these half-burnt bodies and stray dogs gnawing and feeding on them. It is a matter of concern and I feel that it is death of humanity," said a local. Another local said there is a possibility that the bodies are of Covid-19 patients who had been cremated.

Municipality chief Ramesh Semwal said they have assigned a person at Kedar Ghat to cremate the bodies. "During the past few days, number of deaths has been increased in our area."

Previously, large number of bodies were found floating in the river Ganga in UP and Bihar.

Uttrakhand has so far reported 3,29,494 cases and 6,452 deaths. India reported 1,27,510 fresh cases, the lowest in 54 days, and 2,795 deaths in a span of 24 hours, according to the Union health ministry's Tuesday morning data.

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2,81,75,044
Total no. of Coronavirus cases in India so far

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Total no of deaths due to the virus in India so far

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Total no of active cases in India

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