India's crematoriums buckle as Covid dead pile up

Graveyards and crematoriums across India are struggling to cope with the surging number of deaths as the nation of 1.3 billion people battles a raging coronavirus outbreak.

Around the graveyard, white body bags or coffins made out of cheap wood are carried around by people in blue or yellow protective suits and lowered into graves

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.

Belbhadra, who works at one of the famous ghats there, told AFP that they were cremating at least 200 suspected coronavirus victims per day.