Morgue News

Colombo - The dramatic revision of the death toll in Sri Lanka's Easter bombings, which has been cut by more than 100, is a grim indicator of the power of the deadly blasts.

San Juan - Puerto Rico's morgue is overflowing with unclaimed bodies, the result of budget cutbacks in the US territory since last year's devastating Hurricane Maria.

Ankara - They came from all over Turkey to recover on Sunday what remained of their loved ones.

Zaporizhzhya - Before the war, Oksana Biryukova's lab helped investigators connect criminals to crime scenes. Now her equipment is buzzing around the clock trying to identify the charred remains of Ukrainian soldiers.

Donetsk - Like most staff at this east Ukrainian morgue, Olga Georgiyevna takes sedatives to numb the horror of seeing the bodies pile up. The ceasefire deal has done nothing to make her job easier.

A man from Hamilton Co. , Ohio, who used to work in a morgue admitted that he had sex with female corpses, and he did it while he was at work.

Nairobi - Morgue workers in Kenya were shocked and horrified when a 'corpse' "stirred" and started breathing a day after being declared dead.

Stoke Mandeville Hospital is investigating Jimmy Savile's lone visits to its morgue. The hospital, where Savile is alleged to have sexually assaulted children, is conducting a probe into concerns that he may have "interacted inappropriately" with corpses.

Buenos Aires - A video showing Argentina's "miracle baby" found alive in the morgue after doctors had pronounced her dead at birth has been posted online. Doctors are baffled at how Luz Milagros Veron, born premature, survived 12 hours in a morgue refrigerator.

Police in St. Petersburg have discovered a secret cache of hugely expensive caviar hidden inside a hospital morgue. Apparently it was intended for a hospital party.

Dundee - Ten of the world's top crime writers are competing to have a new morgue and research facility in Scotland named after them.

A grandfather in the town of Libode in the Transkei, South Africa, woke up in a morgue after his family presumed he was dead.

You're grieving. Your loved one has passed away. You begin the funeral preparations. The funeral director sends a car to pick up your loved one from the County Morgue - but, she's not there. How do you lose a dead body, for heaven's sake?

The families of several deceased persons have won the right to sue Morgue employees and a photographer for posing and photographing bodies.