Kids pick human bones for a living

At the busiest crematorium in this Tamil Nadu temple town in southern India, the quiet work of a group of little boys is more heart-rending than the wails of bereaved relatives.

About 10 boys visit the crematorium at Thathaneri on the banks of the Vaigai river and rummage through the heap of hot ashes of dead bodies with their small bare hands to pick bones. Read more..............In Madurai, kids pick human bones for a living

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Human Skulls & Bones Smuggling

These human skulls and bones were not for any medicinal study purpose but were for its use in Buddhist monasteries. Police in eastern Indian city "Jaigaon" have discovered a stash of hundreds of human skulls and thigh bones and arrested a gang for allegedly smuggling them to the Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan for use in Buddhist monasteries.

Jaigaon (also spelt Jaygaon) is a small town in Jalpaiguri district in the Indian state of West Bengal in India, near the Bhutan border where all this trade is happening.

"During interrogation they confessed that the hollow human thigh bones were in great demand in monasteries and were used as blow-horns, and the skulls as vessels to drink from at religious ceremonies," as per the investigating officer Ravinder Nalwa.

Buddhist monks in India said human thigh bones and skulls were used by followers of a Tibetan school of Buddhism.

They suspect some bones may even have ended up as far away as Thailand and Japan.

In April, police discovered what they called a "human bones factory" in the state, and arrested six people for illegally trading in skeletons. The bones were apparently being sold to medical students and for use in traditional medicine.

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