Papua New Guinea's health authorities bury 92 unclaimed bodies, including 40 children, after a video showing overflow from a morgue being stored in a shed went viral.
abc.net.au/news/port-moresby-hospital-buries-unclaimed-bodies-in-mass-grave/101826544Papua New Guinea's health authorities have conducted a mass burial of 92 unclaimed bodies, including 40 children, after a video showing overflow from Port Moresby General Hospital's morgue being stored in a shed went viral.
A Facebook Live video by the local Sunday Bulletin newspaper showed an excavator digging a large hole in which dozens of wooden caskets were buried. The statement said Wednesday's mass burial was for all unclaimed bodies and body parts from March to July last year. The hospital's acting chief executive Dr Kone Sobi said the morgue had originally been built with a capacity for 64 bodies.
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