Battling for over 20 hours amid incessant rain, the rescue team on Monday recovered the bodies of all the seven victims trapped under the debris of mudslide in the temple town of Tiruvannamalai.
A middle-aged couple was found hanging from a tree in a jungle near the north Searsole Colliery of ECL in Jamuria police station area today.
Initially wrapped in PPE kits during the peak of the pandemic, these bodies have now decomposed, leaving only bones behind, their identities lost amidst administrative neglect and bureaucratic indifference.
Tension prevailed in the Naihati area in North 24-Parganas district after three bodies, including two minors were found at Ramchandrapur village on Tuesday morning.
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Claiming 30 casualties in the state, the state Congress president gave a call to party workers to perform last rites of CM and municipal affairs minister in protest against their failure to deal with the situation arising from the floods.
Multiple claimants to a single body have triggered chaos and confusion overtaking the grief and anguish of losing the loved ones.
"Burying the dead on river banks should be stopped as this results in polluting our scared rivers as when the sand gets displaced with time due to water current or strong winds and these bodies get exposed or drift into the river".
In a series of tweets, West Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankar expressed his anguish at the disposal of dead bodies with 'heartless indescribable insensitivity' and sought an 'urgent update' from the state's home secretary.
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