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morgue

[mawrg] / mɔrg /
NOUN
mortuary
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The heavy snowstorm has prevented rescuers from transporting the bodies from the backcountry to a morgue in the nearby town of Truckee, Nevada County Sheriff Shannan Moon said at a news conference on Wednesday.

From BBC

Once the bodies are recovered, they will be transported to the Placer County morgue.

From BBC

Individuals were also identified in footage from morgues, including the Kahrizak Forensic Medical Centre, to where many bodies from Tehran and surrounding areas were transferred.

From BBC

That was until a year later, when Nataliya was informed that a body had been identified in a morgue in south-eastern Ukraine, using a sample of DNA she had given.

From BBC

“They called the morgue. They thought you were dead.”

From Literature