Amid rising Covid-19- related deaths in Maharashtra, a Muslim graveyard in Mumbai has put up a hoarding outside, warning people of its closure due to a shortage of land to bury bodies. The board put up by the graveyard authorities outside the Wadala Muslim Sunni Kabrastan also lists reasons for its closure.

It states that the graveyard has nine plots comprising 1,132 graves in which 128 graves are reserved for children and 165 graves are reserved for Covid dead bodies, with space for 839 graves for normal bodies. It further stated that in 18 months around 950 to 1,000 bodies are received for burial in the graveyard but it has space for only 809 graves due to which graveyard authorities are facing a lot of problems in managing the bodies.