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  • Coronavirus: New York using mass graves amid outbreak

    04/10/2020 2:03:24 AM PDT · by Oldeconomybuyer · 43 replies
    BBC News ^ | April 10, 2020
    Images have emerged of coffins being buried in a mass grave in New York City, as the death toll from the coronavirus outbreak continues to rise. Workers in hazmat outfits were seen using a ladder to descend into a huge pit where the coffins were stacked. The location is Hart Island, used for New Yorkers with no next of kin or who could not afford a funeral. New York state now has more coronavirus cases than any single country, according to latest figures. The state's confirmed caseload of Covid-19 jumped by 10,000 on Thursday to 159,937, of whom 7,000 have...
  • Erosion at New York's Hart Island graveyard unearths human bones

    04/26/2018 3:53:51 AM PDT · by BBell · 11 replies
    https://www.cbsnews.com ^ | 4/25/18 | GREG GULBRANSEN
    NEW YORK -- Hart Island, a massive burial ground near the Bronx borough of New York City, is eroding, unearthing human bones along the shoreline, CBS New York station WCBS-TV reports. Advocates said the city hasn't done anything – until now. "Skeletal remains are literally just coming out of the earth," Melinda Hunt of the Hart Island Project told WCBS. On Monday, 174 exposed bones were recovered from the Hart Island cemetery. It's a giant potter's field on an island where the East River meets the Long Island Sound. More than a million unclaimed New Yorkers with no family or...