{"id":37673,"date":"2021-04-07T19:34:04","date_gmt":"2021-04-07T14:04:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/?p=37673"},"modified":"2021-04-07T19:34:04","modified_gmt":"2021-04-07T14:04:04","slug":"maharashtra-08-bodies-of-covid-19-victims-cremated-on-one-pyre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=37673","title":{"rendered":"Maharashtra | 08 bodies of COVID-19 victims cremated on one pyre"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\">PTI<\/span> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Eight bodies of COVID-19 victims were cremated on one pyre due to a shortage of space at a makeshift crematorium in Maharashtra\u2019s Beed district, a civic official said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Since residents had opposed the cremation of bodies of COVID-19 patients at crematoriums in Ambajogai town, local authorities had to identify another place away from there to perform the victims\u2019 last rites and space there was limited, he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAs residents objected to the cremation of COVID-19 victims in the crematoriums which we currently have, we identified a separate space on Mandwa road, nearly two km away from the town,\u201d Ambajogai Municipal Council\u2019s chief officer Ashok Sabale told PTI.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The new makeshift facility has limited space, he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAs a result, we had to set up one large pyre and cremate eight bodies on Tuesday. It was a big pyre and the bodies was kept at a certain distance from each other,\u201d the official said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He said since the viral infection is growing and more deaths are likely, they are planning to expand the makeshift facility and make it waterproof before the monsoon season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The official also said if people come forward to seek treatment at an early stage of the coronavirus infection, they can be saved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Tuesday, 716 new cases or coronavirus were reported in Beed district, raising its tally to 28,491.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The district has so far recorded 672 deaths due to the disease, as per official data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>With inputs from <span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\">PTI<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PTI Eight bodies of COVID-19 victims were cremated on one pyre due to a shortage of space at a makeshift crematorium in Maharashtra\u2019s Beed district, a civic official said on Wednesday. Since residents had opposed the cremation of bodies of COVID-19 patients at crematoriums in Ambajogai town, local authorities had to identify another place away [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37674,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37673\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}