COVID-19: Bodies wash up on banks of river Ganges as deaths pass 250,000 on India's deadliest day

Bodies of COVID-19 victims have washed up on riverbanks in India as the country endured its deadliest day of the pandemic so far. Scores of corpses have been found on the banks of the holy Ganges river, as 4,205 people were declared dead from coronavirus yesterday. Grieving relatives, their villages stripped of firewood, have been forced to simply place their loved ones in the water, rather than cremate them in traditional Hindu style.