morgue
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The quake damaged a morgue in Colombia's third-largest city Cali, which currently counts the most fatalities.
From Barron's ● Aug. 14, 2026
Vaccines, masking, improved indoor air quality and acquired immunity have all kept the virus at bay so that morgue trucks no longer fill the streets.
From Salon ● Aug. 6, 2026
“It was like going to the morgue to identify a body,” said Bayouth, 40.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2026
She said forensic experts would take fingerprints and photographs of the deceased and create a file for each body brought to the morgue.
From Barron's ● Jul. 4, 2026
The soldiers around the Institute call the morgue the Submarine because its main door is made of heavy steel and looks like a pressure door in a submarine.
From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston
"We've searched for him in hospitals, in morgues – everywhere," his stepfather, Jose Alejandro Abache, told BBC Mundo.
From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2026
Others were frantically searching by hand for missing loved ones in the rubble, but also in hospitals and morgues.
From Barron's ● Jul. 1, 2026
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
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 ● Feb. 9, 2026
The morgues, hospitals and places of refuge were constantly besieged by people looking for lost relatives.
From The True Story of Our National Calamity of Flood, Fire and Tornado by Logan Marshall
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