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Manila prison holds mass burial of 70 unclaimed bodies

Inmates walk past caskets during a mass burial of 70 unclaimed bodies of prisoners at New Bilibid Prison cemetery in Muntinlupa, Metro Manila on Friday. (AFP Photo)

MANILA: The unclaimed bodies of 70 inmates at the Philippines’ largest and most congested prison were buried on Friday, several weeks after justice authorities discovered decomposing bodies.

The bodies, including one of a Japanese man convicted of drug smuggling, were interred in a mass burial. They were among more than 170 corpses found to have been kept at a morgue in Manila.

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