In this April 15, 2017 photo, River Ganga or the Ganges is seen from a tourist spot in Kolkata, West Bengal, India. Elizabeth Brenner is on a pilgrimage following the last footsteps of her son who was studying abroad in India in 2011. She believes that part of her son's remains flowed across India through the Ganga river into the Bay of Bengal. Hundreds of thousands of American students study abroad each year, but no one can say exactly how many are injured or die. (AP Photo/Rishabh R. Jain)
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