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🇳🇬 Punch
National & Local

Benue thugs abduct mortuary attendant, stop mass burial

Thugs in Benue State have abducted a mortuary attendant, disrupting the mass burial of victims killed in a recent bandit attack.

Mar 14 • 02:17 UTC
🇳🇬 Punch
National & Local

Thugs abduct mortuary attendant, disrupt mass burial in Benue

Thugs abducted a mortuary attendant in Benue, hindering families from retrieving bodies for a mass burial following a bandit attack that left several dead.

Mar 13 • 15:25 UTC
🇬🇧 Mirror
National & Local

'I've worked on 10,000 dead bodies as embalmer but will never forget one corpse'

A seasoned British embalmer reflects on the heartbreaking case of a five-year-old boy among the many bodies he has worked with over his 30-year career.

Mar 11 • 05:00 UTC
🇮🇳 Aaj Tak (Hindi)
National & Local

Rats ate flesh, bodies in the mortuary were gnawed by rats

Family members in Uttar Pradesh's Mirzapur have accused a government hospital's mortuary of having bodies eaten by rats, sparking outrage and administrative response.

Mar 10 • 04:57 UTC
🇮🇳 Aaj Tak (Hindi)
National & Local

UP: Rats gnawed at the body, made a hole in the waist... The corpse kept in the mortuary was gnawed by mice

A family in Mirzapur, India, has alleged that rats gnawed on their deceased relative's body in a hospital mortuary, raising concerns about hygiene and care in medical facilities.

Mar 10 • 03:49 UTC
🇧🇷 G1 (PT)
National & Local

Young woman breaks the taboo and becomes the only woman in the operational area of a funeral home in Presidente Prudente

Maria Eduarda Bataliotti has made history as the only woman in the operational area of a funeral home in Presidente Prudente, Brazil, inspiring others with her journey.

Mar 6 • 10:07 UTC
🇱🇹 Lrytas
National & Local

Tesonet owners have purchased a former mortuary in the capital's Žvėrynas district

The owners of Tesonet have acquired a historic mortuary in Vilnius as a real estate investment, with plans for commercial and cultural projects.

Feb 24 • 11:53 UTC
🇧🇷 G1 (PT)
Crime & Justice

Woman arrested after stealing newborn's body from mortuary in Amazonas

A 45-year-old woman was arrested for stealing a newborn's body from a mortuary in the municipality of Autazes, Amazonas, after the child's father reported its disappearance to the police.

Feb 23 • 23:06 UTC
🇬🇧 Sky News
Crime & Justice

Funeral directors jailed for four years after decomposing body found in mortuary

Two funeral directors in Hampshire were sentenced to four years in prison for fraudulent practices involving decomposing bodies in their mortuary.

Feb 18 • 12:40 UTC
🇩🇪 SZ
National & Local

Hitler's Favorite Painter: Ingolstadt Mortuary Dance: Dispute Over Former Star of the NS Art Scene

A controversy has arisen in Ingolstadt over a fresco by Oskar Martin-Amorbach, a notable painter from the Nazi era, displayed in the local mortuary.

Feb 9 • 13:51 UTC
🇶🇦 Al Jazeera
Life & Tech

"Refrigerator Officer".. A Kuwaiti drama that opens the drawers of the dead to tell the stories of the living

The Kuwaiti drama "Refrigerator Officer" explores the often-ignored world of the morgue through the story of a man confronting his conscience in his job within this somber environment.

Feb 5 • 11:01 UTC
🇮🇳 Aaj Tak (Hindi)
Crime & Justice

Body handed over naked for not paying: Humanity shamed at the mortuary...

A shocking incident in Noida, Uttar Pradesh, where the mortuary staff allegedly demanded 3,000 rupees for a shroud and refused to handle the body without payment, forcing the grieving family to buy a cloth from the cremation ground.

Feb 3 • 08:01 UTC
🇭🇷 Večernji List
Crime & Justice

Committed a series of vandalism near Osijek: Broke monuments in the cemetery with an axe

A 50-year-old man from Palača, near Osijek, was arrested by police for committing multiple acts of vandalism, including breaking windows at a mortuary and vandalizing religious monuments with an axe.

Jan 9 • 13:48 UTC
🇭🇷 Index.hr
Crime & Justice

Man smashed religious monuments and a mortuary near Osijek. A 50-year-old man was arrested

A 50-year-old man was arrested by Osijek-Baranja police for vandalizing religious monuments and windows of a mortuary using an axe.

Jan 9 • 13:29 UTC
🇬🇧 Mirror
Crime & Justice

Wrong body cremated after mix-up at Glasgow Queen Elizabeth hospital mortuary

A cremation mix-up at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow has led to an investigation by NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde, resulting in the suspension of staff following the mistake of incorrectly releasing a body to the undertakers.

Dec 27 • 11:37 UTC

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