CORONAVIRUS CRISIS
Daily Mirror|April 27, 2021
Pyres burn amid festival fury
TOM PARRY
CORONAVIRUS CRISIS

Special Correspondent PYRES lie ready for a mass cremation in New Delhi as the world’s deadliest Covid-19 strain runs rampant in India.

Angry families of the dead are blaming the government for allowing a giant religious festival to go ahead.

The Kumbh Mela, on the banks of the Ganges river, takes place every 12 years and brought together more than five million Hindu devotees.

This story is from the April 27, 2021 edition of Daily Mirror.

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