About 50 Bodies Found in Trucks Outside NY Funeral Home

About 50 Bodies Found in Trucks Outside NY Funeral Home
Workers move bodies to a refrigerated truck from the Andrew T. Cleckley Funeral Home in the Brooklyn borough of New York City on April 29, 2020. Craig Ruttle/AP
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NEW YORK—Police were called to a Brooklyn neighborhood Wednesday after a funeral home overwhelmed by the CCP virus resorted to storing dozens of bodies on ice in rented trucks, and a passerby complained about the smell, officials said.

Investigators who responded to a 911 call found that the home had rented four trucks to hold about 50 corpses, according to a law enforcement official. No criminal charges were brought and the official, who was not authorized to speak publicly about the investigation, spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity.