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Spanish soldiers find bodies in retirement homes

The ice rink at the Palacio de Hielo, or Ice Palace, a shopping centre in Madrid was made into a morgue to deal with a surge in deaths in the capital. [Image: AFP]

Spanish soldiers deployed to help fight the new coronavirus outbreak have found elderly patients abandoned, and sometimes dead, at retirement homes, as an ice rink inside a Madrid shopping mall was turned into a temporary morgue to cope with a surge in cases.

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