City plans to use catacombs for swine flu victims
A city council said Saturday it was considering using underground burial chambers, currently a tourist attraction, to store the corpses of swine flu victims if the pandemic worsens.Exeter City Council said the empty 19th-century catacombs could become an emergency mortuary.A council spokesman said the plan could be put into operation if the cemeteries and the crematorium could not keep up with funeral demands.....