Dainik Jagran की स्टोरी का Fact-Check | Prayagraj में Ganga के किनारे दफ़न dead bodies 'आम बात' हैं?
Channel: Alt News
Date: 2021-06-02

The second wave of the coronavirus pandemic in India did not only overwhelm an unprepared healthcare system but also choked crematoriums unaccustomed to performing mass funerals. Many of those unable to afford crematoriums performed water burials in the Ganges or buried their loved ones on the river’s banks. In the second week of May, over 2,000 bodies were reported to be found along a 1,140 km stretch of the banks of Ganga across Bihar and Uttar Pradesh.
Dainik Jagran, over the last few days, has published a series of reports attempting to portray that mass burials have always happened along the banks of Ganga and online media is misleading its readers through sensational coverage of the issue.