BHOPAL: As the death toll from the coronavirus continues to mount the city falls short of space for cremating and for burying the bodies. The second wave of the pandemic has walloped the state harder than it did last year. The number of people dying and being afflicted with the disease is spiralling with each passing day. Out of 41 bodies lying at the Bhadbhada cremation ground 33 fell prey to the coronavirus but the space in the crematorium is limited and the family members are asked to wait for their turn. The Jahangirabad burial ground is also facing a space crisis as the place dedicated for corona-related deaths is in a crunch. The manager of the Bhadbada crematorium Laad Singh said that to perform the last rites they had only four workers and on the day 41 bodies reached for the last rites. Out of 33 corona patients who died in the past 24 hours 17 are from Bhopal. The rest were from the other part of the state. The bodies in cases of normal deaths can be handled by the relatives of the deceased but the body of a corona victim can only be handled by the staff of the crematorium. He added that on the day three bodies were cremated in the electric crematorium because there was no space to set the funeral pyre. Similarly in the Subashnagar crematorium last rites have performed in which people had died due to corona and due to the normal disease.

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