Heartbreaking images show a Spanish priest forced to conduct "drive through" funerals as the coronavirus death toll continues to rise.
There is just time for a brief blessing as hearses come and go throughout the day while the killer bug takes its toll. Each ceremony at Madrid's La Almudena cemetery lasts just five minutes, and no more than five mourners are permitted to attend.
Father Edduar, whose job it is to conduct the sorrowful proceedings, told CNN it is one of the few opportunities he now has to meet worshippers, with churches closed across the country.
He said: "I try to be close to them. I tell them I'm with them and that they're not alone. Sometimes it upsets me, I cry." Each closed casket of a Covid-19 victim is doused with
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