Maharashtra: Pigs found eating human body near Nanded hospital

AURANGABAD: Pigs were found gnawing on an unidentified human body near the Nanded-based Dr Shankarrao Chavan Government Medical College and Hospital on Wednesday morning. The administration has ordered a probe into the matter.
The hospital is located in the Vishnupuri area, on the outskirts of Nanded, around 225 km from here. This incident came to light after some locals spotted a bunch of pigs taking chunks off a body lying in the nullah outside the hospital, that remains crowded round the clock with thousands of patients coming from Nanded and surrounding districts.
The locals alerted the authorities. Subsequently, some employes of the hospital and a police team from the area police station went to the spot. With some difficulty, the partially decomposed body was fished out and sent for autopsy at the hospital.
When contacted, Nanded district collector Vipin Itankar said, “The police are looking into the matter.”
Citing preliminary autopsy report, the Nanded police said the deceased is suspected to be more than 30-years-old and so far, no one has identified or claimed the body. Police have reached out to the residents in the localities around the hospital, apart from contacting security guards deployed at the hospital.
A case of accidental death has been registered while a final autopsy report is awaited to ascertain whether the death was accidental, natural or homicidal.
Dr Sudhir Deshmukh, the dean of the hospital, told TOI: “The body was found outside the hospital premises and we suspect that it was lying in the nullah for about 24 hours before being spotted.”
Hospital authorities are also checking if he had been to the hospital as a patient or a patient’s relative in the past two to three days.