This unpleasant sight awaited visitors at the back entrance of Santa Maria Addolorota Cemetery yesterday: rotting coffins and other materials piled into an open skip. The reader who took this photo, Chris J. Delicata, said there was clearly no regard for the sentiment of mourners. He said this was not the first time he had seen this and appealed to the authorities to introduce a more decent way to dispose of waste.

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