Nigerian hospital 'overwhelmed by corpses from police'
08/Dec/2009
A Nigerian hospital has told the BBC it is overwhelmed by the number of corpses being brought to them by police.
The Chief Medical Director at the University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital in Enugu says his staff are being forced to carry out mass burials.
The BBC has established that at least seven people were last seen alive in police custody, accused of kidnapping.
Enugu State Police Commissioner Mohamed Zarewa told the BBC he was too busy to talk about their case.
Nigeria's police have faced strong criticism from human rights groups for carrying out extrajudicial and arbitrary killings.
Source and full story: BBC News
(Tags: burial related, mass graves, missing people)