102 bodies found in India river

Authorities are investigating how more than 100 bodies, many of them children, ended up floating in an offshoot of the Ganges River in northern India.

102 bodies found in India river

Authorities are investigating how more than 100 bodies, many of them children, ended up floating in an offshoot of the Ganges River in northern India.

Officials do not suspect a crime, and instead believe the dead were given water burials. It is Indian custom not to cremate unwed girls, and many poor people cannot afford cremation.

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