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Tears of a child as Nepalis cremate quake dead
AFP, Published on 05/11/2023
» JAJARKOT (NEPAL) - The wails of eight-year-old Prem Kala Kami echoed across her Nepali village on Sunday, as the shroud-wrapped bodies of her parents and two of her brothers lay beside her awaiting cremation.
This is going to hurt: Top 10 Covid scams
AFP, Published on 21/08/2021
» PARIS - From the sophisticated to downright strange, the pandemic has set off a wave of scams around the world from bogus doses and fake vaccine passes to criminal cremations.
India's interfaith volunteers help farewell Covid victims
AFP, Published on 15/05/2021
» NEW DELHI - Suneet Sharma has calmly staged dozens of funerals each day of India's resurgent coronavirus crisis -- but he was overwhelmed when a father arrived at the crematorium with the body of his infant daughter.
Bodies pile up as Covid overwhelms India
AFP, Published on 28/04/2021
» NEW DELHI - Bodies of Covid victims lay burning Tuesday in funeral pyres cramming New Delhi's sidewalks and car parks amid an explosion of new cases, as foreign aid began arriving to surging hotspot India in efforts to keep the pandemic at bay.
India's crematoriums buckle as Covid dead pile up
AFP, Published on 20/04/2021
» NEW DELHI: A summer storm is buffeting New Delhi as Mohammed Shamim wearily pauses to glance at yet another ambulance arriving with a coronavirus victim to bury, just minutes after the last.
Anger after Indian police cremate gang-rape victim
AFP, Published on 01/10/2020
» BOOL GARHI (INDIA) - Indian police were accused Wednesday of cremating the body of a teenaged "untouchable" Dalit woman against her family's wishes after she died following an alleged gang-rape by four upper-caste men -- the latest sexual assault to shock the country.
Bali's open-air burials endure despite Covid-19 crisis
AFP, Published on 16/06/2020
» TRUNYAN, Indonesia: For centuries Bali's Trunyanese people have left their dead to decompose in the open, the bodies placed in bamboo cages until only the skeletons remain.
Vietnam families to bury victims of UK truck tragedy
AFP, Published on 28/11/2019
» DIEN CHAU (VIETNAM) - The families of some of the 39 Vietnamese people found dead in a truck in Britain prepared for emotional burials for their children Thursday after an agonising weeks-long wait to bring their bodies home.
Vietnam families to bury victims of UK truck tragedy
AFP, Published on 28/11/2019
» CAN LOC (VIETNAM) - The families of some of the 39 Vietnamese people found dead in a truck in Britain prepared for emotional burials for their children Thursday after an agonising weeks-long wait to bring their bodies home.
Varanasi's temple corridor destroys old neighbourhood
AFP, Published on 09/01/2019
» NEW DELHI - India's ancient city of Varanasi is clearing the way for a grand temple corridor by razing hundreds of houses, wiping away its oldest neighbourhood and upsetting locals.