Daily Brief: Manual scavenging killed 19 people in Mumbai in past five years. But BMC records show zero deaths, and more

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Manual scavenging killed 19 people in Mumbai in past five years. But BMC records show zero deaths

The first part in a series investigating how municipal authorities in western India cover up the illegal practice of manual scavenging.

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