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Only, the crematorium's decision to dump half burnt corpses isn't entirely driven by climate considerations - it's out of cost considerations due to a local diesel fuel shortage.

The crematorium's staff was busy dumping a few more bodies to a site when they were caught red handed by villagers wondering where the stench came from.

Place? Hengyang county, which is located in the southern province of Hunan. Time? Last Wednesday. Reason? According to village representative Xiao Gaoyi it's the high price of diesel. "As the price [..] rose, we saw more and more bags thrown out from the crematorium," he was quoted as saying.

The staff wasn't all that smart, thinking they could get away with their dodgy business because they drove funeral cars to the site where they had been dumping body parts for months, South China Morning post, China's most prestigious paper, reported.
Villagers witnessed "crematorium workers putting half-burnt human remains and organs in plastic bags and throwing them into a nearby ditch."

At the moment, China is in the midst of its worst fuel supply crisis since 2003. This is due to its decision to impose market regulations on the fuel. This forced domestic refiners to cut output. Fuel in China is rationed in many places.