Abohar, June 4

The mortuary at the Sub-divisional Civil Hospital here is packed with bodies. Today, there was no freezer to keep the bodies of two persons — both accident victims.

In the absence of space, two bodies had to kept in one freezer. Later, a freezer was borrowed from the Nar Sewa Narayan Sewa Samiti.

The in-charge of the mortuary said seven unidentified bodies had been received in the past three days. The identity of only one had been established so far. Currently, the mortuary has five freezers and bodies are to be kept for 72 hours for identification. After that, the police initiate action and cremate the unidentified bodies with the help of the Nar Sewa samiti. Today, the police allowed the cremation of two such bodies. — OC