Police in New York uncovered up to 60 bodies stored in two unrefrigerated U-Haul trucks outside of a funeral home in Brooklyn and on the building's floor, the New York Post reports.
The funeral home also had two refrigerated trucks outside with other bodies inside, along with a box truck containing empty caskets, according to police.
John DiPietro owns a neighboring building and said he's been watching bodies being stacked in the trucks for at least a few weeks during the coronavirus crisis.
“You don’t respect the dead that way. That could have been my father, my brother,” said DiPietro.
According to the funeral home, the bodies were scheduled to be taken to a crematorium but never got picked up.
Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams said the city needs to add more people to its “bereavement committee” to handle the city's soaring coronavirus death toll.
“We need to bring in funeral directors, morgues, [medical examiners], clergies … when you find bodies in trucks like this throughout our city, treating them in an undignified manner, that’s unacceptable.”
A person who owns Pemco supplies, a nearby kitchen appliance parts supplier, referred to the scene as a "disaster."
“They were storing them in U-Haul trucks; we knew what was going on but not the extent,” the owner said. “One thing to be [killed] by the coronavirus, another to be treated inhumanely.”
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