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edhopper

(33,570 posts)
Sat Oct 28, 2017, 11:27 PM Oct 2017

Puerto Rico funeral homes are burning bodies that arent being counted

In official Maria death toll.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/puerto-rican-bodies-aren-counted-official-death-toll-article-1.3594202

The Puerto Rican government is allowing funeral directors and crematoriums to burn the bodies of Hurricane Maria victims without counting them in the official death toll.

The result is a death count that masks the extent of the hurricane’s devastation.

The official death toll now stands at 51, but is widely considered to be a gross underestimation of the actual number of lives lost during and after the hurricane.

Local relief workers estimated that more than 400 bodies were packed into a morgue in Aguadilla, in the U.S. territory’s northwestern tip, and Reps. Nydia M. Velazquez (D-N.Y.) and Bennie G. Thompson (D-Miss.) have called for an investigation into underreporting in the official death toll following the hurricane.



Wait, let's investigate Hillary again.
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Puerto Rico funeral homes are burning bodies that arent being counted (Original Post) edhopper Oct 2017 OP
The death count is at least 4000 imho Not Ruth Oct 2017 #1
Is It The Puerto Rican Government That Is Wanting This Undercount Or.... global1 Oct 2017 #2
Why is the PR government wanting the deaths uncounted? lunasun Oct 2017 #3
This is an unbelievable nightmare mountain grammy Oct 2017 #4

global1

(25,241 posts)
2. Is It The Puerto Rican Government That Is Wanting This Undercount Or....
Sat Oct 28, 2017, 11:43 PM
Oct 2017

are they taking orders from Trump to undercount? Why would the PR Government want to undercount? However, Trump has a motive to undercount. He was taking pride in the fact that the death toll was low. I don't think he can handle a big death toll on his watch.

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