Red Cross volunteers exhume the bodies from makeshift plots in Khartoum so that their families can give them a proper funeral and gain some closure

In Sudan’s war-scarred capital Khartoum, Red Crescent volunteers have begun the grisly task of exhuming the dead from makeshift plots where they were buried during the fighting so their families can give them a proper funeral.

Teams of workers in dust-streaked white hazmat suits comb vacant lots, looking for the spots where survivors say they buried their loved ones.

Mechanical diggers peel back layers of earth under the watchful eye of Hisham Zein al-Abdeen, head of the city’s forensic medicine department.

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