The BMC reopened the Muslim cemetery at Deonar on Thursday, even as partially decomposed bodies continue to surface there. It had been closed for the past seven months due to lack of space. BMC had briefly opened the Rafi Nagar cemetery on Wednesday but closed it for burials again after finding more partially decomposed bodies.

The only burial at Deonar Sunni Kabrastan, until the time of this report, of a 68-year-old woman, was around 6 am on Wednesday. In late July, officials had attempted to reopen the cemetery but chose to keep it closed for a while longer. The decision followed the discovery of partially decomposed bodies on the premises, similar to an incident at the Rafi Nagar graveyard.