Zim dead abandoned

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Harare - Bodies are piling up in Harare's mortuaries, because relatives of the dead refuse to claim them. Most of the relatives can't afford the cost of a funeral.

While the city council has been giving paupers' burials to the unclaimed bodies, it is now running out of burial space.

"Some," says Harare Central Hospital's superintendent Chris Tapfumaneyi, "are poor and abandon the bodies on purpose, hoping the city will lay their relatives to rest.

"Others are the bodies of dead vagrants, collected by police."

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