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Due to fear of covid; People are leaving dead bodies of relatives in streets

Due to fear of covid; People are leaving dead bodies of relatives in streets
Due to fear of covid; People are leaving dead bodies of relatives in streets

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Due to deaths from COVID-19 virus in last few days, people are leaving the bodies of their relatives on the streets without any last action. 

According to the media reports local police and other people are coming together for help of the last action of the dead. 

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For the past several days in Delhi, such cases are continuously coming up, which people working in police and NGOs are cremated in different parts of city.

On April 23, from the Dr. Hedgewar Arogya Hospital in Karkardooma, the daughter left her father in the hospital, later police was informed that 62-year-old Ashok Kumar, who was admitted, has died. 

According to the Police, he was admitted by someone in an unconscious state, but no one is with him now in the hospital. 

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“His family lives in Tughlakabad, which he wrote at the time of recruitment. The police team went to the address given by the hospital, but no one was there.” Police said.

Investigation revealed that Ashok had been recruited by his daughter and that he had mistaken the address. The police could not find their daughter. 

Police investigation revealed that the deceased was a security guard, The police cremated them at the cremation ground in Sarai Kale Khan, where the housemates were not found.

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On Sunday, a family rushed to the crematorium in Old Seemapuri with a relative after he died on the road after seeing coronation. Seeing the crowd and the line of dead bodies, the family brought them away and left the road and fled. 

People saw the dead body at around 4 in the evening. After waiting for the family for several hours, seeing the dead body, the people present there called the police and informed them about the matter. After which the body was captured after the arrival of police in the case.

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