No more room for the dead as Syria's Aleppo is crushed
Source: AP
BEIRUT (AP) — The old Aleppo cemetery filled up a year ago. The new one filled up last week. Now the dead are left in the besieged enclave's streets, buried in backyards and overwhelming the morgues.
Medical officials secured yet another plot for the dead. But they say they have no way to dig graves with government troops now crashing into opposition-held eastern Aleppo, shelling civilians as they flee and forcing thousands to squeeze into a chaotic, devastated and shrinking pocket of neighborhoods.
"We have no more room," said Mohammed Abu Jaafar, the head of the local forensic authority. His department is so overwhelmed, the staff registering the dead pleaded with him not to take any more bodies.
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"There are wounded people everywhere. I am afraid I will step on them as I walk," said Abu Jaafar.
And while the makeshift medical points are overwhelmed and understaffed, they also don't know where to bury the dead.
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With no respect in death, Abu Jaafar said surviving in collapsing Aleppo may be even worse.
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tragedy NOT even on MSM's radar. Could trump chumps bromance with that russian POS have something to do with things? God!!!All the suffering children....
