An investigation has been
launched into the discovery of four long-abandoned bodies at a cancer research
center in central Moscow, law enforcement authorities told Russian media on
Wednesday.
The corpses believed
to be dead for more than 10 years were reportedly found during an audit at the
Blokhin National Medical Research Center for Oncology on Monday.
“Three wooden boxes were found in
the refrigeration chamber, containing four mummified bodies and a person’s
skeletonized lower limb,” the state-run TASS news agency quoted Moscow’s chief
investigator Yulia Ivanova as saying Wednesday.
The Investigative
Committee’s Moscow branch has teamed up with the Roszdravnadzor health care
watchdog to investigate the morbid discovery.
Authorities have not
yet been able to identify or assess the age of the mummified bodies, TASS
reported.
The mummies were
found less than a month after the appointment of the research center’s new chief, Dr. Ivan
Stilidi.
The research center said the
four cadavers, which were handed over to law enforcement, were stored because
“they were long unclaimed by relatives.”
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