Sunday, December 09, 2007

Chinese crematorium dumped half-burned bodies to save fuel

China's worst fuel crunch in years has led a crematorium to dump half-burnt corpses to try saving on diesel costs.

Villagers in Hengyang county, in the southern province of Hunan, discovered the practice when an "unbearable stench" started coming from the site, and tried to block a road on Wednesday to stop funeral vehicles from delivering more bodies.

The village sent people to investigate the smell and said they saw "crematorium workers putting half-burnt human remains and organs in plastic bags and throwing them into a nearby ditch."

"As the price of diesel rose, we saw more and more bags thrown out from the crematorium," said Xiao Gaoyi, a village representative and one of the witnesses.

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