Marina Buries 19 Unidentified Bodies

The bodies had been unidentified since last year at the hospital mortuary. They were laid to rest at Ledumang cemeteries on Friday morning.

The 19 corpses comprised three adults and 16 children. The Minister of Health and Wellness, Dr Alfred Madigele who was amongst the gathering that came to pay their last respects to the deceased, said most of the children who were buried that day were stillborn babies abandoned by their mothers upon death. Most of those deceased children’s mothers were said to be foreigners who stayed in the country illegally. “The adults have not been identified. It’s very important that we know where our relatives are. We decided to bury the bodies after relatives did not come forward to claim them therefore congesting the hospital mortuary,” he said.