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Gaza is using ice cream trucks to store bodies because morgues are running out of space: report

Even with the freezer trucks, one hospital is still over capacity, and has been storing up to 30 bo…

Matthew Loh   


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Ukrainian morgues seeing 'more or less double' the fatalities since counter-offensive began

The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff estimated in February that Ukraine had lost more than 100…

Katherine Tangalakis-Lippert   


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Harvard's morgue scandal wasn't the first time donated bodies ended up dismembered and sold on the black market

Harvard Medical School drew national media attention in June, after its morgue manager was arrested…

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Gaza's hospitals are running out of medicine, have no beds for new patients, and could turn into morgues without electricity, Red Cross and officials say

Palestinian officials said health services in Gaza have entered a "critical stage" and that "medici…

Natalie Musumeci,Grace Eliza Goodwin   


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Families suing Harvard over the trafficking of their loved ones' corpses call the morgue a 'haven for predators'

The lawsuit alleges that Harvard failed "to provide a safe place" for human remains, blaming "lax p…

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Inside hospitals and morgues in China, where COVID-19 is surging

China is experiencing a surge in COVID-19 cases after relaxing restrictions. Experts predict at lea…

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Harvard allowed criminals to roam morgue and shop for body parts like 'trinkets at a flea market,' 19 families say in lawsuit

Nineteen families joined a lawsuit over the Harvard morgue trafficking scheme that resulted in head…

Michelle Mark   


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Harvard researcher finds out that his wife's remains may have been sold in a morgue trafficking scheme

Jack Porter told the Boston Herald that his wife's remains may have been mishandled as part of a su…

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Up to 400 cadavers could have been used in the Harvard morgue's human remains trafficking scheme, lawsuit alleges

The feds have accused Harvard's morgue manager of dissecting donated cadavers and selling their hea…

Michelle Mark   


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Ukraine says so many Russians were killed that the Russian army is storing dead soldiers in a meatpacking plant turned morgue

The Ukrainian government says Russians are looking for industrial refrigerators to store bodies aft…

Cheryl Teh   


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Russia's war dead abandoned by the Kremlin are piling up in Ukraine's refrigerated train trucks, video shows

Ukrainian Railways CEO shared a video showing how it preserves soldiers' corpses. Russia is reporte…

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Feds charge 4 in macabre black market scheme, saying human remains from Harvard's morgue ended up in creepy doll shop outside Salem, Mass.

Federal prosecutors say they've busted a nationwide ring trafficking in stolen human remains.

Jake Swearingen   


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More than 7,000 unclaimed dead Russian soldiers stored in Ukrainian morgues, government says

Ukraine says Russia refuses to take back the bodies of their dead soldiers as Putin's Kremlin remai…

Alia Shoaib   


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A man was found alive after being declared dead and left in a morgue freezer overnight, reports say

Srikesh Kumar, 45, was declared dead after a traffic accident and placed in a morgue, but his famil…

Cheryl Teh   


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A necrophiliac who sexually abused 99 corpses in hospital mortuaries over a 12 year period is jailed for double murder

Hospital worker David Fuller, 67, told detectives that he would work night shifts and prowl the mor…

Joshua Zitser   


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Florida hospitals order mobile morgues to deal with COVID-19 death overflow, report says

AdventHealth ordered 14 mobile morgues to be utilized at 10 campuses across central Florida in prep…

Joshua Zitser   


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Video shows elderly Shanghai resident being taken to a morgue in a body bag — while still alive

"He's alive. He's alive. Did you see? Don't cover him anymore," one of the workers can be heard say…

Waiyee Yip   


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Bodies are being piled in refrigerated trucks in Kyiv because the morgue can't handle the number of civilian casualties, coroner says

A coroner in Kyiv told the Washington Post that his team has processed 200 bodies in the last seven…

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Texas deployed its National Guard to help with overflowing morgues in El Paso as the coronavirus death toll rises

The coronavirus surge in El Paso is filling refrigerated trucks with bodies that prison inmates hav…

Morgan McFall-Johnsen