MEC Dismisses Reports of Bodies Piling up in Phoenix Mortuary in Durban
The National Funeral Practitioners Association stated that undertakers in mortuaries in KwaZulu-Natal are overwhelmed. The riots and violence ended up in the deaths of 22 people in KZN alone. Hlengwa explained that the maximum capacity of the storage facility in Phoenix is 500 bodies. Read also According toIOL, Simelane-Zulu stated that around 128 bodies were being processed and not 300 or 500. She added that not all of the bodies at the mortuary are linked to last week’s civil unrest....