After Video Showing Mass Cremation Of COVID Victims In Lucknow, A Wall Comes Up To Block View
A day after a shocking video surfaced online showing a large number of funeral pyres burning together at the Bhainsakund Crematorium in Lucknow, the authorities have put up tin sheets, around the area, in an apparent effort to cover up the view.
A day after a shocking video surfaced online showing a large number of funeral pyres burning together at the Bhainsakund Crematorium in Lucknow, the authorities have put up tin sheets, around the area, in an apparent effort to cover up the view.
Several videos posted online on Thursday showed men erecting the tin sheet wall around the crematorium.
This is not Ganga Aarti, this is burning funeral pyres at Bhainsakund Crematorium, Lucknow. Now they have tin sheets surrounding it to stop videos and pics. That¡¯s how they handle Covid in UP. By denying its existence. pic.twitter.com/T1dlfyNf4H
¡ª Sangita (@Sanginamby) April 15, 2021
The development came a day after shocking visuals from Bhainsakund surfaced on social media which showed multiple funeral pyres burning there at the same time.
Visuals of cremation ground at Bhaisakund near Gomti river bank in #Lucknow #COVIDSecondWave #COVID19India pic.twitter.com/P3T5oVSWsk
¡ª Arvind Chauhan (@arvindcTOI) April 14, 2021
Many are said to be those who succumbed to COVID-19.
After the video of the alleged covering up of the crematorium surfaced, many compared it to the wall that was constructed in Ahmadabad last year ahead of the visit of Donald Trump to block the slums from his view.
In Gujarat the BJP govt covered the slums of the poor to hide them from the world.
¡ª Salim Kaskar INC (@salimkaskar3) April 15, 2021
In UP, BJP govt is setting up
Tin sheets to cover Bhainsakund cremation site & prevent people taking pictures of large Num of cremations#CoronavirusIndia#COVIDSecondWave pic.twitter.com/ONb8889O0X
According to reports, Bhainsakund like most of the crematoriums in India right now is seeing a sudden increase in the number of cremations performed there every day.
Many of these are said to be those who died of COVID-19. But the number of those cremated as per COVID-19 protocol is much higher than the official death tolls from the infection.
Bobins Abraham is the Assistant News Editor at Indiatimes. He has more than twelve years of experience in TV and digital journalism. An avid student of history and geopolitics, he is a conservationist and environmentalist at heart. He writes on environment, sustainability, human-animal conflict and more.
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