As the world celebrates love today � Valentine�s Day - over 100 unclaimed bodies at the Police Hospital in Ghana will be buried in a mass grave at the Awudome Cemetery in Accra.
The bodies have been stacked in the hospital�s mortuary for over a year.
Authorities at the hospital have said most of the bodies are those who died through criminal related offences. The Public Relations Officer of the Police Hospital, Chief Inspector Juliana Obeng, told Citi News the exercise is to decongest the morgue.
�It has become necessary because the ridge was built for 30 bodies at a time and has exceeded its capacity. It is now overflowing with over 120 bodies hence the need for a decongestion exercise,� she explained.
Chief Inspector Obeng explained that since most of the persons brought there were criminals or had no identification it made it difficult to trace the family members of the deceased.
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