Hyderabad: The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) resorted to a cover-up operation to clear unclaimed bodies after Deccan Chronicle visited the mortuary to enquire about the delay in disposal of bodies on Saturday.
Until 6.00 pm, the transit room in the mortuary was filled with bodies. However, 21 bodies were cleared within minutes on a war footing by the civic staff.
Two ambulances were rushed to the Osmania General Hospital (OGH) to shift the bodies from the mortuary. It is learnt that the bodies were shifted to the Hayatnagar graveyard for cremation.
Although the mortuary had nearly 34 bodies, the civic staff cleared the corpses that were on the list till May 17.
The ones that reached there from May 18 will have to be disposed of after the 72-hour waiting period was over.
