Rising violence causes mortuary to overflow in Ecuadorian city

Refrigerated containers were set up as unrecognised or unclaimed bodies exceeded the capacity of the Guayaquil mortuary (AP)

Spiralling criminal violence in the Ecuadorian city of Guayaquil caused a build-up of unidentified and unclaimed bodies that exceeded the capacity of Guayaquil’s main mortuary, officials have confirmed.

The government of Guayas province, which has Guayaquil as its the capital, said “the problem that has arisen in recent days in the morgue” has been resolved, its first acknowledgment the problem existed in the first place.