Delhi Cremation Grounds Flooded With Covid Dead Bodies
Delhi Cremation Grounds Flooded With Covid Dead Bodies
patients running from pillar to post searching for hospital beds, morgues running out of stretchers, and the cremation grounds bursting at the seams with funeral pyres. Back to the wall, people have even utilized parking lots near cremation grounds to give the Covid-stricken some semblance of dignity in their final moments. Under the high tin roof, 50 funeral pyres burned fiercely on Tuesday, the hot air filled with smoke, fine ash, and muted sobs of shell-shocked families. Nearby, lying unattended on the floor, and in scores of parked vehicles, more corpses awaited their turn, which relatives were told would come 16 to 20 hours later. Shaking Delhi's spirit and soul, an unimaginable tragedy is unfolding at New Delhi's crematoriums struggling to cope with the deluge of the dead arriving at a frightening pace.