Dead bodies in truck.

Bodies of those killed in the #AuraiyaAccident were being sent home to Bokaro in plastic bags on ice slabs, in an open truck, accompanied by survivors. When the Jharkhand Government flagged it, the bodies were shifted into an ambulance in Allahabad.

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