Exhumed in a sentence

A witness, who pleaded for anonymity, told NAN that as at the close of work on Thursday, no fewer than four corpses have been exhumed, while the remaining ones were waiting to be exhumed.

A coffin was exhumed, and on the inside, a skeleton was lying on top of soft woolen padding; a wool blanket tucked around it and wrapped snugly around its head.

A major search is under way near the coastal town of Malindi where dozens of bodies were exhumed over the weekend, sending shockwaves through the country as President William Ruto vowed to crack down on “unacceptable” religious movements.

Another fun time on the Quiz this week, where we learned that being too nice to people can sometimes result in your corpse being exhumed and dismembered and sent all over Europe.

Coast Regional Commissioner Rhoda Onyancha said on Saturday that so far 201 bodies have been exhumed since the discovery of the mass graves on a piece of land at Shakahola forest in late April, Xinhua news agency reported.

Concerned fans, friends, and celebrities await the Nigerian police’s interim report, which was promised within two weeks, shedding light on the autopsy findings from Mohbad’s exhumed body.

Forensic experts and homicide detectives from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) sort exhumed bodies in Shakahola forest of Kilifi county, Kenya, on May 11, 2023.

In the latest development, the remains of the baby were exhumed from the cemetery in November - with a DNA test of the corpse set to be undertaken within days.

Over the past four decades tombs have been opened, bones have been exhumed from forgotten grave sites and conspiracy theories have abounded.

Stephen Smith’s body will be exhumed for an independent autopsy.

The bodies were exhumed from the royal cemetery in the community after it was reportedly sold to an investor to be used for construction of a fuel station.

The body of a political activist and leader of a minority group in the former Transkei will be exhumed in the coming weeks as part of investigating his death.

The problem is that one man is Christian, the other is Muslim, and the Christian community—which hasn’t yet buried the body it’s protecting—demands that a newly dug grave in an Islamic cemetery be opened and the body exhumed.

The prosecution is seeking to detain him for a further 30 days, citing credible information linking the corpses exhumed at Shakahola to the deaths of several “innocent and vulnerable followers” from Odero’s New Life Prayer Central and Church.

When the family members arrived at the scene, a team of police officers and district administration representatives exhumed the body from a location close to the Bisannala River, according to the police.

Because, I'm not making this up, following a proper Christian burial; a body cannot be exhumed without the permission of the next of kin.

Dr Henry Frankenstein is obsessed with assembling a living being from parts of several exhumed corpses.

In September of 1899, his body was exhumed by Cuban authorities to reinter him at a monument in his honor.

Mashaba said before his arrest the suspect, realising police were trying to trace him, allegedly went to his residence in Motetema, exhumed the remains of the deceased and scattered them in a friend's yard.

On March 22, 2001, James Hanratty’s remains, which by then had been moved from Bedford prison to a cemetery near Bushey in Hertfordshire, were exhumed so that a DNA sample could be taken for analysis.