Incessant rains and rising water level in the Ganga river have brought back haunting images of floating bodies in the waters. The increasing water level has exposed the bodies buried in the sands, and the authorities have been working overtime to fish out the bodies and cremate them. Local journalists have been taking photographs that can be termed as disturbing, to put it rather mildly. A photograph taken on Wednesday showed a body stuck on the riverbank, with one hand covered in white surgical glove jutting out of the saffron shroud. The body was pulled out by a team from the Prayagraj Municipal Corporation.

A video from another ghat showed two men pulling out another shroud-covered body from the river and placing it on the sand bank. Niraj Kumar Singh, a zonal officer for the Prayagraj Municipal Corporation, told reporters that he had cremated 40 bodies in the last 24 hours. "We are cremating all the bodies individually, following all the rituals," he told a news channel. Asked about a body where an oxygen tube could be seen in the mouth of the dead person, he admitted that it appeared that the person was ill before death.