Barely days after several dead bodies were found floating in the river Ganga in UP and Bihar recently, the media on Wednesday reported about at least half a dozen corpses found floating in the Runj river in the Panna district of Madhya Pradesh.
The media reported after several viral videos taken by natives of the Nandapura village showed at least half a dozen dead bodies floating in the river Runj, a tributary of river Ken. The incident has not only terrorised locals but they are clueless as to how will they use water from the river.
“We take bath here, also drink the water when our village handpump stops working and our cattle also quench their thirst here but what can we do as the water is contaminated. We have informed the gram panchayat but nothing happened,” a local villager told the media.
Meanwhile, Panna collector Sanjay Mishra said that the bodies of two patients including a 95-year-old man and a cancer patient were put in the river by locals as part of rituals. These bodies have been fished out and buried properly, said the officer.