Skeletons mixed up as graves collapse

Skeletons mixed up after their graves were destroyed in heavy rain last month will be put together in a public grave.

More than 200 graves in Wo Hop Shek Cemetery, Fanling, which was built in 1967, collapsed in the downpour.

However, no relatives had complained or called for compensation.

Ting Yin-wah, chairman of Regional Council's environmental hygiene select committee, said it had managed to contact only 26 families.

He feared many descendants had left the territory and some were indifferent to their ancestors.

The Regional Council set up a four-member investigation committee to handle the case yesterday.