COVID case surge overwhelm India's burials

By Sheikh Saaliq and Aijaz Hussain
Updated April 25 2021 - 8:54pm, first published 8:50pm
Multiple funeral pyres of COVID victims burn at a ground converted into a crematorium in New Delhi.
Multiple funeral pyres of COVID victims burn at a ground converted into a crematorium in New Delhi.

India's crematoriums and burial grounds are being overwhelmed by the devastating new surge of infections tearing through the populous country with terrifying speed, depleting the supply of life-saving oxygen to critical levels and leaving patients to die while waiting in line to see doctors.

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