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  • LUCAS DE LA CAL

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    Beijing

Updated on Tuesday, 27April2021-02: 05

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The avalanche of corpses reaching the crematoria has made it necessary to skip the Hindu funeral rituals.

There are no lamps on the head of the deceased and no white cloaks to guide the souls to the next journey.

"It's like we are in the middle of a war," says Mamtesh Sharma, an official in the Indian city of Bhopal.

"The virus is swallowing people like a monster.

We are burning bodies as they arrive," he

says.

In New Delhi, a dozen ambulances with bodies to

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