Poverty, stigma behind bodies floating in India’s Ganges River. Villagers along the river say cremation expenses rose during the pandemic, forcing many to immerse or bury the bodies in sand.

Family members place floral garlands on the body of a man who died due to COVID-19 before cremation by the River Ganges in Prayagraj, India on May 8, 2021. AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh.

Dozens of rotting bodies were discovered floating in the Ganges River in India on Monday as the country's COVID-19 crisis overwhelmed crematoriums and ... either through cremation or burial. AP.

Bodies of suspected Covid-19 coronavirus victims are seen in shallow graves buried in the sand near a cremation ground on the banks of Ganges River in Rautapur Ganga Ghat, in Unnao on May 13, 2021.

Relatives carry a dead body past shallow graves covered with the saffron clothes of suspected COVID-19 victims near a cremation ground on the banks of the Ganges River in India on May 15.

LUCKNOW, India-- Authorities were investigating Wednesday how more than 100 bodies, many of them children, ended up floating in an offshoot of the Ganges River in northern India.. Officials do not ...

SUJABAD, India — Two weeks ago, as dawn broke over the Ganges river in this waterfront community, someone noticed several bodies in the shallows, among the first of hundreds that would be found ...

A cremation worker sits by the body of an elderly man, wrapped and weighed down by a large rock, before throwing the body into the river Ganges as per his final wish, in Varanasi, India, Oct. 18 ...

The Ganges river is one of the world’s most sacred waterways—and one of its most polluted. To restore it, India is undertaking one of the biggest engineering programs in the history of sanitation.

Thousands throng the banks of the Ganges River, considered the holiest by Hindus, for cremation ceremonies each day. Harrison was cremated in a cardboard coffin hours after his death in keeping ...