Turning in grave
All 21 of Turin's municipal gravediggers are under arrest for robbing corpses, Reuter reports from Turin. Magistrates said the dead had become the latest victims of Italy's corruption scandals. The city's gravediggers were arrested on suspicion of selling jewellery and gold teeth stolen from exhumed corpses. Gold teeth were sold to dentists.
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