Corpses and human remains were discovered in an Egyptian morgue that “belong to the French Embassy and which had been in the morgue's fridges for five years,” according to Chairman of the Forensic Physicians Ehsan Kameel Georgy. The corpses were deposited in the morgue by the French Embassy after an accident, but they were never cremated or buried, he added. “I issued a call to bury the corpses in the morgue's gravesite,” said Georgy. “The problem with Zinhoum Morgue is that families of some of the deceased must still make decisions regarding burial and autopsy,” added Georgy. Some 19 deceased are considered by some to be martyrs from Egypt's January 25 Revolution, but a forensic expert claims that the 19 are prisoners who were shot during an escape attempt. “We got used to the smell and it doesn't bother us; what bothers us is that the corpses remain in the fridge waiting burial,” said morgue workers. The morgue workers experienced a similar crisis when more than 150 corpses were being held at the facility. The corpses are arranged on shelves in layers so that 80 corpses will fit in each room, thus more efficiently preserving them with gamma ray.
