coffins

Sobering pictures show large stack of empty coffins at temporary morgue

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Dozens of coffins stored inside a temporary mosque morgue have given a rare insight into the scale of the coronavirus crisis which has now claimed the lives of 16,060 people across the UK. The images, which show the coffins placed on top of each other inside the mortuary built on the car park of Central … Read more

Coffins fill up Italy’s churches and halls after the death toll soars by 969 in a single day

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The Italian Army has been brought in to ferry coffins out of Bergamo, Northern Italy, as its morgue and its crematorium struggle to cope with the surge in fatalities from the coronavirus pandemic.   Harrowing photos from the town show officers wearing protective hazmat suits as they work to store bodies in churches and halls. It … Read more

Priest performs final blessing before Italian army trucks remove coffins

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Italian soldiers were once again lifting coffins into army trucks today as cemeteries and morgues are overwhelmed by the scale of the coronavirus crisis.  A parish priest in the town of Seriate gave a final blessing to 45 coffins today after they were laid out in neat rows in the San Giuseppe church.  The coffins … Read more

Military trucks transport Italian coronavirus victims’ coffins to be cremated

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Coffins of coronavirus victims were whisked away on a fleet of army trucks last night after a cemetery in northern Italy was overwhelmed by the death toll.  The column of army trucks brought the dead out of Bergamo on Wednesday night in what Italians have called ‘one of the saddest photos in the history of … Read more