Rio police find remains of 100 bodies at dumpsite

RIO DE JANEIRO – The skeletal remains of at least 100 bodies were found on Monday at a garbage dump on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro, police said.

The corpses were between two and three years old and may have come from a local cemetery but were dumped instead of cremated, local health authorities said. Police said it received a tip-off that a dump truck of a private company contracted by the municipality had dropped the bodies there.”We found numerous pieces of human bodies – pelvises, femurs – buried here.When we take the trash and earth away we will probably find more bones,” said Roger Ancelotti, director of the Rio de Janeiro state criminal institute.”It is really frightening.”The bones were left in labelled black plastic bags discovered by people sifting through garbage at a dumpsite about 30 kilometres from Rio de Janeiro.The city government operates the landfill, considered one of the largest in the country.- Nampa-ReutersPolice said it received a tip-off that a dump truck of a private company contracted by the municipality had dropped the bodies there.”We found numerous pieces of human bodies – pelvises, femurs – buried here.When we take the trash and earth away we will probably find more bones,” said Roger Ancelotti, director of the Rio de Janeiro state criminal institute.”It is really frightening.”The bones were left in labelled black plastic bags discovered by people sifting through garbage at a dumpsite about 30 kilometres from Rio de Janeiro.The city government operates the landfill, considered one of the largest in the country.- Nampa-Reuters