Over 10 bags with skeletons were recovered from a locked room of a building, which used to be a hospital, local police reported. The room was used as the hospital’s post mortem area and has been locked since the building was converted into a police station.
"I have come to know that there was a hospital in this building up until 2008. The police department will make a report on this. We are also sending the skeletons to laboratories to find out details," Saumya Agrawal, the chief of police for the district of Unnao where the incident took place, told reporters.
The Indian Ministry of Home Affairs has sought a detailed report from the state government on this issue.
Last month, more than 100 bodies were found floating in the river Ganges in Unnao. Police said that the bodies were given traditional water burials by families that could not afford a Hindu cremation.
