Body Of UP Man Who Died On Road Taken In Garbage Van Over Virus Fears

Lucknow:

A 42-year-old man who died on a highway was dumped at the back of a rubbish van and brought to the police station in an appalling show of insensitivity in an Uttar Pradesh city.

In movies shot on the cell phone, the person is picked up by three municipal staff and bundled into the rubbish van as policemen watch. The incident occurred final night in Balrampur district, round 160 km from Lucknow. Four policemen and 4 municipal company staff have been suspended after the cell clips surfaced.

The video locations an ambulance on the spot too however its employees allegedly refused to the touch the physique, fearing an infection if the person had died of coronavirus.

Mohd Anwar, a resident of Balrampur, had gone to a neighborhood authorities workplace the place he collapsed and died on the gates. Footage from the spot reveals his physique mendacity on the bottom with a bottle of water subsequent to it. Another clip reveals police standing across the physique and a rubbish van within the body. A 3rd cell phone clip reveals three municipal company staff heaving the physique into the rubbish van.

Balrampur’s police chief known as the incident inhuman and insensitive.

“Because there is panic over the coronavirus pandemic, these people carried out an inhuman act of negligence. This is very wrong on the part of the police and the municipal corporation workers. Even if the person was a COVID-19 suspect he should have been handled with a PPE suit. I have ordered a senior government official to conduct an inquiry,” Devranjan Verma instructed reporters on Thursday.

It is just not clear but how Mr Anwar died or whether or not he had coronavirus.