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We reported that as the death toll from Corona is rapidly increasing, a funeral home is leaving the bodies at room temperature.

After the report, the local ward office cracked down on it, but this time the funeral home was caught hiding the coffin with the body in the vehicle.



Correspondent Han Seong-hee.



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The rear door of the van is open, and five wooden coffins are stacked inside the car.



The two coffins lie on their side.



After the SBS report that the coffins with the bodies were left at room temperature in the mortuary, the funeral home company hastily moved them into the vehicle.



[Informant A: I think the funeral hall itself had an admission.

Even the coffin was put in the car.] When



the officials of the district office in the jurisdiction conducted an on-site investigation yesterday (30th), the funeral home hid the existence of the vehicle itself.



They said that the bodies left at room temperature had already gone through the burial and cremation procedures.



[Informant A: The ward office staff came and just checked and went, right.

((Clarification of funeral home) As soon as you hear that story?) Yes, check it for a moment.]



Eventually, the fact that the body was hidden in a vehicle was revealed, and the district office in charge began a re-investigation.



It is a funeral home vehicle in which coffins with dead bodies are piled up.



It is said that among the corpses in the back compartment, there are those of the deceased who have been admitted but are still being buried.



[Chairman of the funeral home: I will transfer it right now, there is something out of the mortuary, the refrigerator.

I'll move it right away, sorry.]



The ward office first imposed a fine of 1.5 million won on the funeral home.



The funeral industry says vague mortuary management rules are a problem.



There is a rule that the body must be kept at 4 degrees below zero, but there is no provision that it must be put in the refrigerator.



The district office in charge said that it would check the condition of the bodies at nine funeral homes in the district every day.