A hangar at -5º to guard the 77 deceased left by the Ceuta avalanche
The autopsies are almost finished and they are looking for ways to collaborate with Morocco to identify the deceased.
A large, transparent room at -5º is the space that has ended up being occupied by the bodies of the 77 people who lost their lives on Thursday in the latest massive entry of migrants from Morocco through the border outcrop of Ceuta, and whose corpses were recovered on the Spanish side of the border. An intense smell invades the place, those who have worked there in recent days maintain. “You can't even breathe slowly to alleviate it,” they state. As time passes, the brain dulls it and it fades into the background.
The magnitude of this tragedy, in which the anxiety to get out of the water caused many people to end up climbing on top of others and sinking them in the sea, activated the protocol for major disasters with multiple victims. The old military hospital in Ceuta, a military complex with several buildings, ended up being converted into a large morgue in a matter of hours.
And a crisis cabinet was set up, made up of forensic experts from the Institute of Legal Medicine and agents from the Criminalistics Service and the Ceuta Command of the Civil Guard, in which military personnel also collaborated.
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