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For: EFE Updated 24 May 2022, 12: 29 pm EDT
The adviser to the mayor of Mariupol, under the control of Russian troops after the departure of the last defenders of the Azovstal steel mill, reported on Tuesday the discovery of almost 200 bodies in a state of decomposition under the rubble in one of the basements of the port city.
“ During the clearance of a multi-storey building near the suburban station (…) in the basement some 100 corpses under the rubble with a high degree of decomposition”, wrote Petró Andryushchenko in a message on Telegram, collected by the Unian agency.
He added that “due to the refusal of the local population to collect and pack the bodies of the dead, the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations abandoned the place”.
In this way, the cues rpos remain in place and due to the partially removed rubble, “the stench is felt in almost the entire neighborhood,” he said.
He pointed out, furthermore, that the transfer for reburial of the bodies previously buried in the courtyards of the buildings has been practically stopped due to the regulations for burial and exhumation carried out by the Donetsk “state corporation” in the framework of the “so-called ‘ritual’”.
Thus, “for a free ‘official’ reburial, you have to stand in line, take the body of the deceased to the ‘morgue’ at your own expense, declare that the body has just been found or agree to record a video in which the applicant says that he was killed by the Ukrainian army”, he explained.
“Due to such conditions, a a large number of corpses were packed in an improvised morgue” on the street, he adds and alludes to the photos that accompany his message.
He added that “the city has become a great cemetery”.
Andryushchenko called yesterday to evacuate residents due to the risk of an epidemic due to rain, decomposing bodies and lack of drinking water and warned that “the consequences of turning Mariúpol into a ghetto will be catastrophic.”
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“Storm drains and clogged sewers cause rainwater, along with debris, to the effects of putrefaction and the poison of the decomposition of the corpses, spread throughout the city”, he specified.
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