More than 80 bodies have been found in rivers in India's Utter Pradesh state, days after heavy rain and floods ravaged the area, UPI quoted police as saying. The storms in mid-June set off landslides and washed away people and livestock in the neighboring state of Uttarakhand, and human bodies have floated down rivers to Uttar Pradesh, the Indo-Asian News Service reported Monday. "Most of the bodies are in bad shape, eaten up by aquatic animals, and barely recognizable," an unidentified senior police official said, noting traces of clothing on the bodies are the only means of identifying gender. Police said bodies have been found in the cities of Allahbad, Meerut, Bijnore, Moradabad, Narora and Muzaffarngar. Uttar Pradesh police have recovered 30 bodies from the rivers, including the Ganges, that pass through the pilgrimage city of Hardiwar, 29 of which have been cremated after preserving DNA samples in the form of hair, teeth and bone, the news service said. "We are preserving the DNA but do not know what to do with it. We wait guidelines," a Hardiwar doctor said.
