Around 176 bodies of deceased inmates from the New Bilibid Prison (NBP) were still at a funeral parlor in Alabang since December 2021.
In Mark Salazar’s report on “24 Oras” on Monday, the Eastern Funeral Homes — the solely accredited funeral home of the Bureau of Corrections in Muntinlupa City — appealed to the government to bury the bodies to ease their storage problems.
“Halos lahat nang namamatay sa Bilibid dito talaga, maliban na lang sa COVID case nila. Di kasi kami nagkikita noong ano nila eh...'yung mga namatay sa COVID. Nung time kasi ng mga namatay sa COVID bale sila po nagpapa-cremate eh,” he said. “Katulad ngayon isa lang namatay kahapon isa rin. Halos isa, dalawa ganon. Di naman lahat ng araw may namamatay po eh,” he added.
“One of the things that surprised the investigators, in this case, was the fact that when they went to Eastern Funeral Homes for the autopsy, the first autopsy conducted by the NBI, they were surprised to see more than 30 corpses inside the funeral home, '' said Remulla.
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