Angmoh died after swimming in shit water

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Promising film-maker Sam Banks collapsed with severe sickness and diarrhoea.
By the time an ambulance rushed him to hospital in New Delhi, the 20-year-old was dead. Last night his teacher mum Louise, 49, said: "We're devastated. He had such a bright future."
Father Graham said: "I understand from friends out there that he had been swimming in the Ganges."
Millions of Hindus bathe in the Ganges every year to wash away their sins. But it is also one of the world's filthiest rivers, with nearly a billion litres of untreated sewage dumped there each day, along with cremated bodies and industrial chemicals.
The day before he died, vegan Sam - an old boy of posh £27,000-a-year Bedales School - learned he had been accepted to study film at the London College of Communication.
He had a brother and two sisters. Dad Graham, head of English at Bedales in Hampshire, "He was a fantastic young man, with hundreds of friends, and was so excited about India.
"He'd been saving up for a year - it was the first time he had been out of Europe."
A post-mortem in India failed to find the cause of death. His body has been flown home to Steep, Hants, for a second autopsy.
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[Watchman]

Ganges is one cesspool . Everyone should avoid like the plague .

 

[Rogue Trader]

this angmo really got 'purified' after swimming in there.

someone i know who has been there told me you can actually smell the ganges river before you see it. so that place is just a big long kang.

 

[Watchman]

 

[Watchman]

Only the filthiest can survive in this environment .

“Indian scavengers look for coins and other valuable items from among the offerings of
devotees in the Ganges at Varanasi on April 5, 2009. More than 400 million people live
along the Ganges River. An estimated 2,000,000 persons ritually bathe daily in the river,
which is considered holy by Hindus. In the Hindu religion it is said to flow from the
lotus feet of Vishnu (for Vaisnava devotees) or the hair of Shiva (for Saivites).
While the Ganges may be considered holy, there are some problems associated
with the ecology. It is filled with chemical wastes, sewage and even the remains
of human and animal corpses which carry major health risks by either direct
bathing in the water (e.g.: Bilharziasis infection), or by drinking
(the Fecal-oral route).” AFP PHOTO/Prakash SINGH

Humans ritually bathe themselves in the waters adding to the pollution.
Fecal coliform [from human "poop"] measurements have been recorded as high as 67,000 times the safe level for humans.