Balasore, Odisha: It has only been a day since a tribal man was seen walking on the streets of Odisha carrying the body of his dead wife, here comes another disturbing incident. In one such similar incident, a hospital worker broke the body of a dead woman at hip for the ease of transporting it.
The man pressed down the body with his foot and broke the bones to make it into a bundle. The workers then stuffed the body into a plastic bag and sling it to a bamboo stick. An image shows two men carrying a bundle tied to a long bamboo with both of them holding each ends of it.
Salamani Barik, a 76-year-old widow died on Wednesday after she was run over by a train. Her body laid for hours at a community health centre in Soro twon in Balasore district as there was no post-mortem facilities. The body had to be taken to a city which is 30 km away.
The railway police decided that the body would be sent by train. As hiring an auto-rickshaw would have been expensive, the police allegedly asked a sweeper to make arrangements for the body to be taken to the station.
The Odisha Human Rights Commission has demanded an explanation from the railway police and the Balasore district authorities in the incident.
The images of a man in Kalahandi, Dana Majhi, walking with his dead wife’s body and a weeping daughter by his side had showed the lack of facilities in the village. He had carried the body for six hours as he could not afford an ambulance.
(Sourced from agencies, Feature image courtesy:oneindia.com)
