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, workers in Ukraine's besieged southern port city of Mariupol are hastily and unceremoniously burying scores of dead Ukrainian civilians and soldiers in a mass grave.
A deep trench about 25 metres long dug in an old cemetery in the heart of the city is filling up with bodies collected by municipal social service workers from morgues and private homes.Bodies are being buried in a mass grave in the Ukraine city of Mariupol as Russian forces bombard it. Other city workers are also bringing bodies so the numbers being buried are quickly rising and the total in the long grave is now unclear.
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