The Public Prosecution completed this Monday morning the burial of the second batch of 18 bodies piled up in the Friendship Hospital in Sheikh Othman for unidentified people, while the first batch that was buried yesterday, Sunday, 12/17/2023 AD, in the Abu Harba Cemetery, was 10 of the bodies. Crowds of unidentified persons in Al-Jumhuriya Hospital in Khor Maksar.

The burial process came in implementation of the decision and directives of His Excellency the Attorney General of the Republic, Judge Qahir Mustafa Ali, to establish a joint work committee to alleviate the accumulation of bodies accumulated in the refrigerators of the Republic Hospital in Khor Maksar and the Friendship Hospital in Sheikh Othman, and after completing the legal procedures by the competent public prosecution offices and authorizing their burial according to the results. And the outcomes of the meetings of the joint work committee from the Public Prosecution and the Ministry of Justice, represented by the General Administration of the National Center for Forensic Medicine and the International Committee of the Red Cross, which is headed by His Excellency the First Public Prosecutor, Judge Fawzi Ali Saif, and under the supervision and follow-up of the members of the committee, the procedures for burying 28 of the accumulated unidentified bodies were completed. In the Abu Harba cemetery, Al-Haswah area, Al-Shaab city, Al-Buraiqa district, in the capital, Aden.

The head of the committee, the First Public Prosecutor of the Republic, Judge Fawzi Ali Saif, stated that the process of burying the accumulated bodies came after several meetings that brought together a group of various parties under his chairmanship, and under the guidance of His Excellency the Public Prosecutor, regarding the bodies piled up inside the morgues of the Republic Hospital and the Friendship Hospital in the capital, Aden, which are Its identity has been unknown for years, and its features have become unclear, and it causes many health and environmental problems, in light of frequent power outages and the lack of sufficient fuel in hospitals, which led to the decomposition of these corpses. Therefore, it was necessary to develop appropriate solutions with the International Committee of the Red Cross in Aden on To bury those unknown bodies that lead to the emission of odors and environmental disasters, a burial mechanism has been put in place by specifying a special place in the Abu Harba cemetery for the bodies, numbering each grave, and keeping everything related to each body in a file where those documents and the place of burial can be consulted when necessary.< /p>

Judge Fawzi Ali Saif stressed his thanks to the International Committee of the Red Cross for its contributions in the humanitarian field.

The burial process was attended by the Deputy Security and Investigation Prosecutor, Judge Bassam Ghaleb, and the Director General of Public Prosecutions, Judge Saleh Bashafi’i,  

The head of the Mortuary Department, Mr. Salah Muhammad Hussein, and the contractor of the International Committee of the Red Cross, Muhammad Ahmed Al-Bayti.