IT was a scene too horrible to imagine: heaps of decaying bodies that were supposed to be cremated - many spilling out of a storage shed, scattered around a crematorium and in nearby woods in the United States.

A grand jury has charged a Georgia crematorium boss, a year and a half after hundreds of bodies were found stashed away at the building.

Distraught families were today trying to identify loved ones in a Georgia community where dozens of decomposing corpses were being removed from a crematorium.