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COVID-19: Overloaded, uninterrupted pyres force Delhi civic bodies to empl
Updated : 5 years ago IST
New Delhi [India], April 29 (ANI): Amid rising COVID-19 cases and deaths in the national capital, all 26 crematoriums of Delhi are inundated with bodies and following the workload, most crematoriums have increased numbers of cremationists or helping hands to four, revising the existing capac
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Delhi Police steps in to help in cremation of COVID-19 victim
Updated : 5 years ago IST
New Delhi [India], April 28 (ANI): As the disastrous second COVID-19 wave continues to make lives difficult for many across the country, the Delhi Police have stepped in on numerous occasions to help struggling citizens in the national capital.
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COVID victim's body taken to cremation ground in auto-rickshaw in Ludhiana
Updated : 5 years ago IST
Ludhiana (Punjab) [India], April 26 (ANI): The body of a COVID-19 victim was allegedly taken on an auto-rickshaw to the cremation ground for the last rites in Punjab's Ludhiana.
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Delhi police perform final rites of COVID-19 victims on humanitarian groun
Updated : 5 years ago IST
New Delhi [India], April 26 (ANI): Amid a grave COVID-19 situation in the national capital, the Delhi Police on Monday performed the last rites of two persons who succumbed to the virus on humanitarian grounds in Dwarka.
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Bihar's Mukti Dham crematorium witnesses surge in dead bodies
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Muzaffarpur (Bihar) [India], April 22 (ANI): The number of dead bodies being brought to the cremation ground daily has increased due to the surge in Covid cases, said the caretaker of Mukti Dham crematorium here.
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Team of Muslim men in Pune bury, cremate bodies of unclaimed, COVID-19 vic
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Pune (Maharashtra) [India], April 22 (ANI): Ever since the COVID-19 outbreak last year, a group of Muslim men in Pune have been performing cremation and burial of abandoned and unclaimed corpses of COVID-19 victims.
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Delhi: Bodies being cremated at parking area of Ghazipur cremation ground
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], April 19 (ANI): Amid the spike in the COVID-19 deaths in Delhi, some people were forced to perform the last rites of their relatives at the parking of cremation ground in Ghazipur in the national capital.
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COVID-19: With burial sites filling up, cremation of Catholics recommended
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Ahmedabad (Gujarat) [India], April 16 (ANI): With an increasing number of COVID casualties and the subsequent shortage of burial sites, the Catholic Diocese of Ahmedabad have been prompted to tell its adherents to consider the cremation of coronavirus victims.
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Bodies of COVID patients taken for cremation in garbage van in Chhattisgar
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Rajnandgaon (Chhattisgarh) [India], April 15 (ANI): Bodies of four COVID-19 patients were allegedly taken in a Nagar Panchayat's garbage van for cremation on Wednesday in Chhattisgarh's Rajnandgaon district.
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COVID-19: Ranchi administration reviews preparations at cremation ground
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Ranchi (Jharkhand) [India], April 13 (ANI): Ranchi Deputy Commissioner Chitra Ranjan inspected preparations at the cremation ground on Monday at Swarnarekha Ghat in Ghaghra after bodies of COVID-19 victims were piled up at the electric crematorium for two days.
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Indore-based social worker rehabilitates homeless, helpless elderly people
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Indore (Madhya Pradesh) [India], March 8 (ANI): Bhagyashree, an Indore-based social worker, who looks after rehabilitation of homeless and helpless elderly suffering from serious diseases and cremation of the dead lying on the road, is an example not only for women but for the whole socie
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Sri Lankan govt allows burial of COVID-19 victims
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], February 26 (ANI): The Sri Lankan government on Thursday granted permission to bury the bodies of the people who died of COVID-19, local media reported.
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