The administration in Sehwan suspended two sanitary assistants Saturday after the dumping of the remains of the victims of Thursday’s suicide bombing drew widespread denunciation on social media.
The remains of Thursday’s bomb blast victims were thrown for dogs in plastic bags and cloth on a garbage dump by a nullah.
The dishonouring of the victims’ body parts triggered grief and anger among locals, prompting Municipal Officer Asif Shah to suspended two sweepers.
The authorities allegedly removed the body parts, which also included few bunches of hair.
“We sent our staff to the site but found nothing,” said the municipal official, who appears to have suspended the two sanitary assistants under pressure.
Shah maintained that the footage might have shown burnt pigeons as hundreds of pigeons in the dome also died in the attack. The official also said that the shrine did not fall within the municipality’s jurisdiction but their staff alongside Auqaf department, volunteers from Edhi Foundation and other organisations moved body parts from the shrine to Sehwan taluka hospital.
Sindh Minister for Transport Nasir Shah said action would be taken against those responsible for this criminal negligence.
Locals, who later buried the remains, told media that they had noticed some dogs savouring the remains that was a very disturbing sight.
Jamshoro Deputy Commissioner Munawar Mahesar told a private news channel he had personally looked over the collection of the remains of the people killed in the attack, but was not sure how these got swept away to the nullah – almost a kilometre away – while cleaning the shrine’s compound where the suicide attacker had blown himself up.
Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah ordered an investigation into the matter.
“I am hurt; do not add to my grief,” the chief minister was quoted as saying.