IRAQ: IRAQI FAMILIES GO TO BAGHDAD HOSPITAL TO LOOK FOR BODIES OF RELATIVES BURIED IN SHALLOW GRAVES

Record ID: 648519

  • Title: IRAQ: IRAQI FAMILIES GO TO BAGHDAD HOSPITAL TO LOOK FOR BODIES OF RELATIVES BURIED IN SHALLOW GRAVES
  • Date: 19th April 2003
  • Summary: (W4) BAGHDAD, IRAQ (APRIL 19, 2003) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 1. SHALLOW GRAVES IN GROUNDS OF AL-MANSOUR HOSPITAL IN BAGHDAD 00.05 2. CU SIGN ON GRAVE SAYING 'UNIDENTIFIED PERSON' WITH DESCRIPTION OF PERSON 00.11 3. CLOSE UP OF GLASS BOTTLE CONTAINING DESCRIPTION BUT NO NAME OF PERSON BURIED IN SHALLOW GRAVE 00.15 4. HEALTH WORKERS PUTTING MASKS ON 00.18 5. HEALTH WORKERS PUTTING ON GLOVES 00.26 6. HEALTH WORKER CLOSE UP 00.32 7. VOLUNTEERS DIGGING UP BODIES 00.47 8. EARTH BEING SHIFTED 00.54 9. HOSPITAL WORKER (RIGHT) AKSING FOR DESCRIPTION OF THE DECEASED MAN THEY ARE LOOKING FOR, BROTHER OF DECEASED MAN (ON LEFT) TALKING TO HEALTH WORKERS 01.08 10. SITE OF GRAVES AND PEOPLE DIGGING 01.15 11. CLOSE UP OF BROTHER OF DECEASED AND HOSPITAL OFFICIAL DIGGING WITH THEIR HANDS, PEOPLE WATCHING 01.29 ****GRAPHIC FOOTAGE WARNING 12. CU HOSPITAL OFFICIAL AND BROTHER OF DECEASED UNCOVERING FACE OF BURIED MAN 01.38 13. CU IDENTIFICATION TAG 01.44 14. BROTHER OF DECEASED MAN CRYING AS HE RECOGNISES HIS DEAD BROTHER 01.52 15. HOSPITAL OFFICIALS CHECKING DETAILS OF BURIED MAN 02.03 16. BROTHER CRYING NEXT TO GRAVE 02.36 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 4th May 2003 13:00
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  • Location: BAGHDAD, IRAQ
  • Country: Iraq
  • Reuters ID: LVA8RR4R8NWDMPLR1YLW4ZU5LDL
  • Story Text: Iraqi families have been going to a Baghdad hospital to
    look for the bodies of relatives buried in shallow graves,
    which they wish to recover for proper burial.



    The grounds of the hospital for children in al-Mansour,
    in Baghdad, have been turned into a cemetery.

    Relatives of those killed during the U.S.-led war against
    Iraq came to the hospital on Saturday (April 19) to search for
    the bodies of friends and relatives.

    Many wore gas masks to overcome the powerful stench of
    death which pervades the cemetery. Identification is a
    gruesome task.

    One of the people at the makeshift cemetery tried to
    identify his relative by searching for clues in the mouth of
    the body with his finger.

    "He (the dead man) had lost two teeth and had two
    artificial ones in their place," he said. The man was
    identified as his brother.



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