India: Bodies of suspected COVID-19 victims wash up on Ganges riverbanks
15 May 2021 |
12:39 pm
The coronavirus surge and the cost of cremation may have led some to dispose of relatives' bodies in the river. Experts fear the death toll is being underreported.
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