Dozens of decomposing bodies found in trucks at Brooklyn funeral home

Neighbors complained of a foul odor coming from trucks parked outside the home, which had a broken freezer, a law enforcement official said

The call came in at shortly after 11 am on Wednesday: A terrible stench was coming from a pair of trucks parked outside a funeral home on Utica Avenue in Brooklyn.

When the police arrived, they made a gruesome discovery. Inside the trucks — a U-Haul rental and what seemed to be a tractor-trailer — were several dozen decomposing bodies.

It remained unclear how many of the people found stacked in body bags inside the trucks at the Andrew T. Cleckley Funeral Home had died in the coronavirus pandemic, the authorities said.

But New York City’s death care system — its hospital mortuaries,