Police are urging villagers in northern India not to bury their dead in rivers after scores of bodies washed up on the shore of the Ganges amid a second wave of coronavirus. On Friday, rains exposed the cloth coverings of bodies buried in shallow graves in the sand of the riverbank in Prayagraj, a city in Uttar Pradesh state. Health authorities last week retrieved 71 bodies that washed up on the Ganges River bank in neighboring Bihar state. He said the impoverished state's government was 'pained at both the tragedy as well as harm to the river Ganges'. We need to investigate where they are from, which town in UP (Uttar Pradesh) - Bahraich or Varanasi or Allahabad.

Source: Daily Mail May 16, 2021 10:49 UTC