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‘Graves are disappearing’: For the right price, burial space is being ‘created’ in Karachi

As the Pakistani city runs out of space to lay its dead to rest, old graves are illicitly being demolished to make way for new ones.

Scroll Staff
Apr 18, 2022 · 05:28 pm

VIDEO: In the teeming metropolis of Karachi, Pakistan's biggest city, graveyards are filling up and the dead are running out of space to rest. But for the right price, a plot can be "found" for the body of a loved one by crews who demolish old graves pic.twitter.com/RqUnChx1bN

— AFP News Agency (@AFP) April 17, 2022
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