morgue
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A makeshift morgue is operating outdoors in the port of La Guaira, where long lines form to receive the bodies of loved ones and the death certificates.
From Barron's ● Jul. 3, 2026
“My daughter wasn’t taken to the morgue, she was transported to the hospital parking lot,” Villalonga said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 30, 2026
At a makeshift morgue set up in a port warehouse in La Guaira, hundreds of bodies were stored in white and black body bags and coffins waiting to be identified, an AFP correspondent reported.
From Barron's ● Jun. 29, 2026
Some travelled from morgue to morgue, hoping to find answers.
From BBC ● Jun. 24, 2026
When Dad got back from the morgue, he looked like a stranger to me, wild-eyed and nearly incoherent.
From "Bad Boy" by Walter Dean Myers
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Her anguish is shared outside morgues as well as in hospitals, where photos of missing persons are plastered on walls and utility poles, written on handwritten pieces of paper.
From Barron's ● Jun. 30, 2026
Zein al-Abdeen, one of only two forensic doctors in Khartoum, said the capital's morgues "were already full before the war".
From Barron's ● Apr. 27, 2026
Verified footage from various parts of the country showed Iranians searching for the bodies of loved ones in makeshift or overcrowded morgues.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 15, 2026
The agency said it had examined more than 500 witnesses, collected information from taxi, bus, train and flight operators, and searched hospitals and morgues, but had found nothing.
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2025
After visiting a number of morgues he finally found the body of a girl at Rolston's, in Adams street, which he identified as Miss Swayze.
From Chicago's Awful Theater Horror by Various
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