As New York morgues ran out of space, a funeral home filled U-Haul trucks with dozens of bodies, police say

The neighbors could not ignore the smell of decomposing corpses outside the Brooklyn funeral home.

With New York morgues struggling to find room for the increasing number of bodies from the coronavirus pandemic, residents looked on as employees at the funeral home placed dozens of body bags inside metal U-Haul trucks parked on the street. Then, they phoned the police.