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CEMETERY BOSSES OPEN WORLD'S FIRST HIGH-RISE TOMBS

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The graves are housed in what look like rows of left luggage lockers / Picture: Europics.at

Thursday November 19,2009

CROWDED cemetery bosses have opened the world's first high-rise tombs after realising that all their grave plots had been taken up.

The bizarre graves - in Shillong, northern India - are housed in what look like rows of left luggage lockers with metal doors.

But the four-storey space saving cemetery has been such a hit that church leaders are building more.

Aspokesman for the Divine Saviour parish church told the Austrian Times: "Families like them because they know for a fact this is where their loved one is and they know that no-one is ever going to be buried on top of them."









The four-storey space saving cemetery has been such a hit



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THANK YOU, NO !

19.11.09, 8:18pm

I've never lived in a multi-storey flat while I was alive, and I'm damned if I will when I'm dead either !

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