Corpse found in drinking water tank

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Students and staff at Mahamrishi Devaraha Baba Medical College had been drinking water from a tank that contained a decomposed body for nearly ten days.

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00:00Imagine drinking water from a tank, only to later discover a dead body had been decomposing

00:04in it for over a week.

00:06This horrifying reality unfolded at Mamrishi Devraha Baba Medical College in Deoria Uttar

00:10Pradesh, where students and staff had been unknowingly drinking and using the contaminated

00:15water for nearly 10 days.

00:19The truth surfaced only after a foul odour spread across the campus, prompting cleaning

00:23staff to check the fifth sole tank.

00:24What they found on inspection left everyone shaken, a rotting unidentifiable corpse floating

00:29inside the very tank that supplied water to the OPD and ward buildings.

00:33The body, severely decomposed and beyond recognition, was later removed in the presence of police

00:38and sent for post-mortem examination.

00:40A video of the district magistrate Devraha Mittal questioning the principal of the Medical College

00:44Dr Rajesh Kumar Banwal has since gone viral.

00:47Banwal has been suspended.

00:48The contaminated tank is now sealed, with fresh water being supplied by our tankers.

00:52Meanwhile, a five-member inquiry committee has been directed to submit its report within

00:56two days.

00:57A few days meant to save lives ended up endangering them, with one question echoing across Uttar

01:02Pradesh.

01:03How did such a lapse occur inside a medical institution meant to protect life itself?

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