IRAQ: Baghdad Morgue Overflowing Daily:
"BAGHDAD, Apr 14 (IPS) - As sectarian killings continue to rise in Iraq, the central morgue in Baghdad is unable to keep up with the daily influx of bodies.
The morgue is receiving a minimum of 60 bodies a day and sometimes more than 100, a morgue employee told IPS on condition of anonymity.
'The average is probably over 85,' said the employee on the morning of April 12, as scores of family members waited outside the building to see if their loved ones were among the dead.
The family of a man named Ashraf who had been taken away by the Iraqi police Feb. 16 anxiously searched through digital photographs inside the morgue. He then found what he was looking for.
'His two sons were killed when Ashraf was taken,' said his uncle, 50-year-old Aziz. 'Ashraf was a bricklayer who was simply trying to do his job, and now we see what has become of him in our new democracy.' " (cont.; it gets pretty graphic)
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