Police have launched an investigation after finding dozens of bodies, many of which are presumed to be fatalities of the coronavirus, stored in U-Haul trucks, parked outside a funeral home in brooklyn.
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After receiving an alert call, reporting “blood coming from one of the trucks,” according to the diary amNewYork, authorities turned to Andrew T. Cleckley Funeral Home, located at 2057A Utica Avenue. Once there, they found business workers transferring the bodies to a large refrigerated truck.
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Neighborhood residents were alarmed to see officials and Health Department officials arrive to start the operation, after the funeral home employees had moved 15 bodies to the refrigerated truck.
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Although the police do not believe that any crime has been committed, they do investigate the “reason why so many bodies are being stored in non-refrigerated trucks,” says amNewYork.
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Everything seems to indicate that the bodies, which would number between 40 and 60, assured The New York PostThey had been there for over a week, decomposing.
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Just a couple of days ago, the county chair of BrooklynEric Adams asked the city and state to implement a more dignified system to handle the bodies of the victims of coronavirus they are gone accumulating in temporary morgues around the city. The request comes after receiving several complaints about the condition of the bodies when they are picked up by funeral home employees.
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The protocol established by the New York Hospital Association says that the bodies of the deceased must be treated in a manner that denotes respect, should never be stacked, should be stored properly, and hospitals should have adequate supplies for the packaging of the deceased. .
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