Hindustan Times (Lucknow)

TWO BODIES FOUND FLOATING IN GHAZIPUR’S BARA AREA: SDM

- HT Correspond­ent letters@hindustant­imes.com

VARANASI : Two bodies were seen floating in river Ganga in Bara area of Ghazipur district on Monday, claimed locals and said that they informed sub divisional magistrate about it. Bara town in UP’s Ghazipur district shares its boundary with Buxar district of Bihar.

After receiving informatio­n about it, sub divisional magistrate, Sevrai area of Ghazipur district, Ramesh Kumar Maurya reached the spot and got the funeral of the bodies done.

Maurya said, “I received informatio­n that two bodies were floating in the river Ganga in Bara area of Ghazipur. I along with my team reached the spot and found only two bodies floating in the river Ganga.”

Mauray said he had no idea from where the two bodies had come. He said that the bodies appeared to be a fortnight old.

Maurya said that it would be ensured that no such incident happened in near future. Maurya, however, refused to comment on Buxar administra­tion’s claim that the bodies found in the Ganga stretch in Buxar district came from UP side.

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