PLAGUE TIDE
Indian police beat Covid rule breakers with sticks as hundreds of corpses wash into the Ganges from shallow graves
Updated: 16 May 2021, 20:52
COPS are beating lockdown rule breakers with batons in an Indian state as the country battles a crippling second wave of Covid cases and deaths.
It comes as masses of dead bodies buried in shallow sand graves washed up on the banks of the river Ganges with cremation costs tripling as India grapples with widespread devastation caused by coronavirus.
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Bodies buried in shallow graves have washed up on the banks of the GangesCredit: Alamy
Police were forced to urge people in Uttar Pradesh - the country s most populous state - not to dispose of the bodies of their relatives in the water as thousands continue to die every day in the country.