“It is by sheer luck that I managed to escape death that day.”Facebook Twitter Pinterest The cremation ground of Jatpura village. Photograph: Shaikh Azizur RahmanThe three Yadav men shot in May were victims of an unlikely environmental crisis. The sand miners arrived at the beginning of the year, using excavators and industrial vacuums that could slurp vast quantities of sand from the riverbed. After midnight, more than 500 men gathered at the cremation ground, metres from where the Yadav men were shot. Facebook Twitter Pinterest Burnt sand-carrying trucks lying by the ghat where sand mining took place near Jatpura village.

Source: The Guardian December 30, 2017 21:00 UTC