Delhi riots: Family members collect bodies of loved ones from morgue; some taken to UP, Bihar

Mohammed Sahil had brought his 50-year-old wounded father to the GTB Hospital on a motorcycle two days ago, but on Thursday evening, he collected his body wrapped in a starch-white shroud.

Tears trickled down his cheeks as Parvez Alam's body was wheeled into an ambulance on way to Muzaffarnagar, the deceased's native place.

A grieving Sahil had been waiting anxiously at the GTB Hospital for the last two days and doctors handed over the body after conducting post-mortem.

The death toll in Delhi's worst riots in more than three decades climbed to 38 on Thursday as the violence ebbed but did not subside completely and thousands of people began picking up the pieces of their shattered lives and livelihoods.

Asked where would he bury his father, Sahil said, "We have got 'walid sahab's' (father's) body, and we are taking it to Muzaffarnagar."

"Our relatives are afraid to come to Delhi, so we are taking him to Muzaffarnagar, where the burial will take place," the 26-year-old told PTI.

Alam .