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Living with corpses: Anguish in Bolivian city as cemetery system collapses

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Cochabamba, Jul 1(EFE).- Farewelling the dead during the COVID-19 crisis has become full of anguish in a Bolivian region where relatives go days with the corpses of their loved ones in their homes due to the high demand for burials and cremations.In an ongoing struggle, people make the daily pilgrimage to the doors of the General Cemetery in Cochabamba, one of Bolivia's main cities, waiting for a response to their requests for burials. (Camera: CLAUDIO ÁBREGO).FOOTAGE SHOW RELATIVES OF A DECEASED SAYING GOODBYE TO THE COFFIN WITH THE MORTAL REMAINS, AT THE GATES OF THE GENERAL CEMETERY OF COCHABAMBA, BOLIVIA.SOUNDBITES: AN AFFECTED MALE RESIDENT AND AN AFFECTED FEMALE RESIDENT OF COCHABAMBA (IN SPANISH)TRANSLATIONS: 1.) They don't want to attend us here to bury my relative. Now there is no place to leave the dead. Unfortunately he’s now in my house, I don't know what I am going to do. Monday, Tuesday and Wendesday - it's been three days already. 2.) Last night the neighbors came and wanted to take out the coffin and kick it out of my house, because they told me that it was a contamination. They came with sticks, I had to beg them to bury the corpse now, but there is no solution.3.) Bringing the body back to the neighborhood is going to be something that will make people come against us -- we are even afraid that they will stone us.

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