NEW YORK: 100 bodies were found in unrefrigerated trucks in the city of New York during coronavirus outbreak. The city delivered a freezer truck to a funeral home on Wednesday after it was found to be storing dead bodies in unrefrigerated U-Haul vehicles.
ABC News reported about 100 bodies were stored in the vehicles after the owner of the Andrew T Cleckley Funeral Services funeral home said the freezer that normally stores bodies stopped working.
The bodies were found after neighbours reported an odour coming from the trucks, New York media reported.
New York City has been at the epicentre of the global coronavirus pandemic and the city’s funeral homes have been overwhelmed. As of Wednesday afternoon, more than 18,000
people have died of COVID-19 in America’s biggest city.
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