RIO DE JANEIRO: The bodies of 40 newborn babies and fetuses have been found abandoned in a Brazilian hospital morgue, some forgotten for years, authorities said on Monday, comparing it to a horror movie.
Some of the small corpses had been moldering in a morgue refrigerator for as long as five years at the city-administered Pedro Ernesto Hospital in Rio de Janeiro.
Officials also found a number of body parts which prosecutors said were probably left over from emergency amputations.
“It’s like something from a horror film,” prosecutor Ana Cristina Huth Macedo told AFP.
The hospital’s director, Rodolfo Acatuassu Nunes said that the bodies of the deceased and stillborn infants had never been claimed by their parents. (PTI)