“There is always the fear of (a body) hitting the oar or (my boat) running over a dead body as the water level goes up.” “It was really sad to see poor people burying their loved ones in an undignified manner, but the rising water level has made it worse,” Chandel told AFP. Sonu Chandel, a boater who works for a crematorium, was shaken by the sight of families burying their loved ones a couple of months ago. graves, some of which are suspected to have died from COVID-19, on the Ganges riverbank in Phaphamau, on the outskirts of Prayagraj, India, June 25, 2021. REUTERS/Ritesh Shukla A municipal worker walks past shallow sand graves of COVID-19 victims on June 25, 2021. A municipal worker cremates bodies that washed up on the Ganges riverbank after monsoon rains swelled the river. Up to 600 bodies were buried along the holy river during the virus surge, according to officials, but locals believe that is a fraction of the real number and fear that many more could be dislodged by rapid waters in the next few weeks. Bodies, many of which are believed to be COVID-19 victims, are seen partially exposed in shallow sand graves floating along the Ganges River near Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh, India, on June 28, 2021. Officials in Allahabad, one of Hinduism’s holiest cities, told AFP that almost 150 bodies that floated up in the past three weeks have been cremated, as funeral pyres await new bodies along riverside embankments. The victims’ families gave up the bodies of their loved ones to the river or buried them in shallow graves on its banks - unable to afford the cost of funeral pyres at the height of the coronavirus pandemic in April and May, according to Agence France-Presse. Horrifying images have emerged of hundreds of saffron cloth-shrouded bodies of COVID-19 victims floating along India’s Ganges River after the start of the seasonal monsoon flooding dislodged the corpses along the 1,550-mile-long waterway. ‘Oppenheimer’ sex scene condemned in India for ‘attack on Hinduism’ Have a cat fancy? Earn your stripes on a luxury tiger safari in IndiaĬhina is counting on America’s suicidal immigration policy Heart-stopping video shows man being swept away in raging waterfall
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