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Bacchus4.0

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Wed Apr 1, 2020, 09:49 AM Apr 2020

There are 450 bodies to be collected in Guayaquil and Lenn Moreno offers a decent burial

https://www.ecuadortimes.net/there-are-450-bodies-to-be-collected-in-guayaquil-and-lenin-moreno-offers-a-decent-burial/

looks like a rough translation from Spanish news article so wording is odd

Guayaquil residents no longer know what to do with the bodies that decompose in homes. Some families have been locked up with the bodies of their relatives for up to four days and remain on the list to be removed by Legal Medicine.

That generated reactions of discontent on Monday night when some people burned tires, furniture and clothing of some deceased in the suburb of Guayaquil. And through videos they threatened to incinerate even the bodies of the deceased.

That clamor of the relatives and the very fact that some corpses were beginning to be thrown in the streets of Guayaquil brought a reaction from President Lenín Moreno, who ruled out that mass graves would be used and said that the victims will have a decent burial and this Tuesday the authorities announced actions to solve the chaos.

There are no official figures on how many people have died and their bodies have not been removed, nor on the executions carried out. However, according to a list that the police have to go to the uprisings and which this newspaper could access, this Tuesday almost 450 bodies were registered on the waiting list to be removed from the homes.
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