Unclaimed bodies lie in the city morgue in Oacaxa
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Personal effects hang next to unclaimed, unidentified bodies piled on top of each other at the morgue in Oaxaca November 9, 2006. Dozens of corpses of people who died in robberies, road accidents and other mishaps have piled up at the city's morgue, built and unmodified since 1943, after law enforcement broke down during the months of social strife in the state. Normally after lying unclaimed for a while, the bodies would be sent to a common grave or to the university medical school, but since the state bureaucracy has been inoperative for months the bodies have just piled up. Picture taken November 9, 2006. ONLINES OUT REUTERS/Daniel Aguilar (MEXICO)