The sickening video shows the frantic children crying as they are made to look at the camera. It is not clear what disabilities the children have but reports say they were buried as part of an obscure tradition. (Image: Mediadrumimages/ShamantakMani)The children were kept in the pits in the village of Taj-Sultanpur, India, for the entire eclipse. Residents said the parents were told by village elders about the benefits of a solar eclipse as the "heat generated will help cure them". On hearing of reports of the children being buried alive, the district child protection task force raced to the village and rescued the children from the makeshift graves.

Source: Daily Mirror December 27, 2019 13:41 UTC