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Papua New Guineans are supposed to honour their dead in a special community mourning event, known as haus krai. But the high cost of burials is forcing families to abandon the bodies of loved ones and many are ending up in mass graves.
PNG reporter Belinda Kora investigates the bottleneck at Port Moresby’s morgue and cemetery.
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