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Buenos Aires, May 12 (EFE).- Complaints about a lack of proper respect for the dead and their family members are being heard in different parts of the world amid the coronavirus pandemic, as the urgency of caring for sick patients is making the treatment of bodies a matter of secondary importance.(CAMERA: Cecilia Caminos via Zomm and loaned by the EEAF)Statements from the EAAF's executive director, Luis Fondebrider:"Two situations worry me: what we've seen in the United States ... with those mass graves (burials of indigent persons) in New York, which is not a good practice; and I'm very worried about countries like Mexico and Brazil, which even before the coronavirus were very deficient in handling ... unidentified bodies. Mexico has thousands of unidentified bodies because of (organized crime-related) violence. In the case of Brazil, the same thing happens: thousands of bodies end up in unmarked graves due to procedural issues. I applaud that they have been using new protocols but these are situations that always worry us. There were a lot of deaths in Europe and Italy but there weren't as many unidentified bodies, most of them come from hospitals and health centers. Here we have cases of people coming from jails and detention centers and all those gaps holes in the procedures worry us."
The White House expresses "deep concern" for jailed British-Egyptian activist Alaa Abdel Fattah, who is on a hunger strike and began refusing water to coincide with the COP27 climate summit. "We have been in high level communication with the Egyptian government on this case, we have deep concern about it, we would like to see him freed," US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan tells reporters during a press conference in Washington. SOUNDBITE
The rising number of cases of Covid-19 in Europe is of "grave concern", warns the WHO Europe regional director Hans Kluge. IMAGES
Al-Humaydat, Jun 13 (EFE/EPA).- The Iraqi authorities announced Sunday that they have dug up the bodies of 123 people believed to be killed by the Islamic State (IS) group from a mass grave site near west of Mosul. Two mass graves with over 500 bodies of victims killed and buried by the IS group were found near the Government Badush prison in Mosul, said the Nineveh's Governor, Najm Al-Jubouri.Badush prison was attacked by IS in June 2014, some 650 Shiite inmates had been killed, the authorities knew of the grave since 2017 when local inhabitants indicated its existence, but wanted to make sure to have the necessary forensic teams to properly identify the victims. Mosul region was under IS control between 2013 and 2017. (Camera: AHMED JALIL).SHOT LIST: IRAQI FORENSIC TEAM INSPECT THE MASS GRAVE SITE IN THE AL-HUMAYDAT VILLAGE, WESTERN MOSUL CITY, 500 KM NORTH OF BAGHDAD, IRAQ.
Paterna (Valencia, Spain) May 28 (EFE).- Works to exhume the remains of some 150 victims of Spanish dictator Francisco Franco restarted inside a mass grave, known as Fosa 111 and located in the cemetery of Paterna, Valencia. FOOTAGE OF THE EXHUMATION WORKS ON THURSDAY.
U.S. President Barack Obama attends an outdoor arrival ceremony in heavy rain, as the first sitting U.S. president to visit Laos. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
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