As Delhi families bury coronavirus victims, a gravedigger watches on

Mohammad Shameem, a 38-year-old grave digger, rests at the burial site for the victims who died from the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), at a graveyard in New Delhi, India, May 6, 2020. Picture taken May 6, 2020. REUTERS/Danish Siddiqui

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Belonging to the third generation in a family of Indian cemetery workers, Mohammad Shameem had little other choice in life than to dig graves.

But as the novel coronavirus makes his work too dangerous, he now watches on as families in India's capital bury victims themselves. Sometimes, though, there aren't enough mortuary workers and men to lift the body. Then Shameem has to help.