Iran Press/America: Workers, suited up in protective gear, were seen on Wednesday in the neighborhood of Brooklyn, transferring the corpses into a refrigerated vehicle.
It was not clear how long the bodies had been stored in the U-Haul trucks or whether any were COVID-19 victims.
Investigators who responded to a 911 call found that the funeral home had rented four trucks to hold about 50 corpses, according to a US law enforcement official.
ABC News reported about 100 bodies were stored in the vehicles. Funeral homes say they are facing weeks-long backlogs to bury or cremate the dead.
ABC News reported about 100 bodies were stored in the vehicles
The US coronavirus death toll topped 60,000 on Wednesday, according to a tally by Johns Hopkins University.
New York City has been at the epicenter of the global coronavirus pandemic and the city's funeral homes have been overwhelmed. As of Wednesday, more than 18,000 people have died of COVID-19 in the US's biggest city.
The US coronavirus death toll topped 60,000 on Wednesday.
New York has set up temporary morgues and hospitals have used refrigerated tractor-trailers to cart away multiple bodies at a time, sometimes loading them in public view on the sidewalk.
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