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India-Pakistan
40 bodies brought to Peshawar hospitals: DCO
2009-03-28
PESHAWAR: The District Coordination Officer (DCO) Sahibzada Muhammad Anis said on Friday that 40 dead bodies were admitted to different hospitals of Peshawar from tehsil Jamrud.

Talking to Geo News here, he said that 40 bodies of the Jamrud suicide blast were brought to Khyber Teaching Hospital, Hayatabad Medical Complex and Government Leady Redding Hospital.

Anis said that as many as 170 people were getting medical treatment in various hospitals of the city.

He further said that emergency was declared in all hospitals of Peshawar immediately after the suicide attack.
Posted by:Fred

#5  Denial - "He's not really dead - the hospital can save him." I've seen this in several places, mostly other second- or third-world nations.
Posted by: Old Patriot   2009-03-28 13:31  

#4  Maybe just haul everyone to hospital and sort dead from soon-to-be dead?
Posted by: Steve   2009-03-28 11:18  

#3  Spare parts?
Posted by: Fred   2009-03-28 10:08  

#2  gromky, maybe the hospitals have the facilities for identifying the bodies? and cleaning up the corpses so the families don't have to deal with that ghastly gob before the funeral?
Posted by: mom   2009-03-28 09:58  

#1  Bringing the dead bodies to the hospital doesn't exactly strike me as prescient behavior...
Posted by: gromky   2009-03-28 05:51  

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