MARIUPOL, UKRAINE --
Beneath regular Russian bombardment, employees in Ukraine's besieged southern port metropolis of Mariupol are rapidly and unceremoniously burying scores of lifeless Ukrainian civilians and troopers in a mass grave.
With morgues overflowing and extra corpses uncollected in properties, metropolis officers determined they may not wait to carry particular person burials.
A deep trench about 25 metres (27 yards) lengthy dug in an previous cemetery within the coronary heart of the town is filling up with our bodies collected by municipal social service employees from morgues and personal properties.
Some are introduced wrapped in carpets or plastic luggage. Forty got here Tuesday, one other 30 thus far Wednesday. They embrace civilian victims of shelling on the town and troopers, in addition to civilians who died of illness or pure causes.
Different metropolis employees are additionally bringing our bodies so the numbers being buried are shortly rising and the entire within the lengthy grave is now unclear.
Employees shortly make the signal of the cross after pushing the our bodies into the widespread grave. No members of the family or different mourners are current to say their goodbyes.
The work is carried out effectively, and unceremoniously, on account of the ever-present hazard. Shells landed within the cemetery itself Tuesday, interrupting the burials and damaging a wall.
The town plans to shut this grave Thursday, if the bombardments cease lengthy sufficient to permit employees to take action.
On the gates of the cemetery, a girl requested if her mom is amongst these buried within the trench. She stated she had left her physique three days earlier than exterior the morgue, with a paper label stating her identify hooked up. Her mom was buried there, the employees advised the girl, who declined to offer her identify.
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