India: Gang in PPE cremate murder victim as Covid patient

Lucknow - The victim was invited to a party by the men, whom he owed four million rupees and suffocate, police said.

Five gang members in India wore full protective gear to cremate a man they had murdered, pretending he died from Covid-19, police said Tuesday.

The victim was invited to a party by the men, to whom he owed four million rupees. They suffocated him to death, according to police.

The gang wore full PPE and cremated the body at a facility in the northern city of Agra, registering the dead man under a false name, local police chief Muniraj G. said.

“To avoid being caught... they wore PPE kit and used a body bag to pack and transport the body to the cremation ground,” Muniraj G. said on Twitter.