mortuary

Fellow morticians were also alarmed at the uptick in the number of bodies cremated by the Lamb Funeral Home, a respected, family-run establishment and pillar of the Southern California mortuary business for generations.

Lucy and her catch, David Persons, went back to school — she to an all-girls Catholic college in Oakland, he to school in Reno then to mortuary training in San Francisco.

One man told BBC Arabic's Middle East Daily programme that Nasser hospital's mortuary was "filled beyond capacity", and that several bodies had to be placed in the corridor before they could be buried.

We rely heavily on local Palestinian journalists working with us to access information about deadly attacks - interviewing witnesses as well as visiting bomb sites and hospital mortuaries to film footage, which is shared with us.

Families are unable to say goodbye to loved ones because of changes to death certificates which has also led to overcrowded mortuaries, a funeral director has said.