NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio criticizes the Brooklyn funeral home that stored bodies in unrefrigerated trucks. 'There are a lot of ways the funeral home could have turned to us for help and of course we would have helped them. But they stayed silent.'
A day earlier, officials discovered four trucks containing as many as 60 bodies outside the Andrew Cleckley Funeral Home after someone reported fluids dripping from the trucks, according to the law enforcement official.It's unclear how many bodies will be removed, the official said Thursday. Authorities have also asked the owner to gather paperwork that would help identify the bodies.
At least one of the trucks was unrefrigerated, according to one law enforcement official. One source said the bodies were put on ice."They were like almost everyone doing their best to cope," one source said. New York has been the epicenter of the US coronavirus outbreak for weeks, with 17,866 confirmed and probable Covid-19 deaths, according to the city website.
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