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Illegal ‘bones factory’ shut down
非法“人骨工厂”被查封
KOLKATA, India (Reuters) — Indian police discovered a human "bones factory" in an eastern state on Monday and arrested six people for illegally trading in skeletons, a senior officer said.
KOLKATA 印度 (路透社) — 本周一,印度警方在西孟加拉邦捣毁了一家“人骨工厂”,逮捕了六个非法进行人骨交易的人。
The arrested men told police the bones were sold to medical students and used in traditional medicine, district police chief Peeyush Pandey said.
分区警察局长Peeyush Pandey说,嫌犯已经交代这些人骨卖给了医学院的学生,同时也用来制造土药材。
Investigators found dozens of skeletons — treated with chemicals — laid out to dry in the sun when they reached a river bank in Keshia, 200 kilometers (125 miles) north of Kolkata, capital of West Bengal state.
当警探到达Keshia市河畔时,他们发现几十根涂着化学药品的人骨被放在太阳下晒干。Keshia市位于西孟加拉邦首都Kolkata市以北200公里。
"We received complaints that several bodies were missing from graveyards and, while investigating the case, we stumbled on the secret bones factory," Pandey said.
Pandey说:“我们接到投诉说墓地丢失了很多尸体,当我们调查丢失尸体事件时,无意中发现这家秘密的人骨工厂。”
The accused would take largely unburned bodies from Hindu cremation sites as well as from rivers where the dead are often disposed by the poor who cannot afford to cremate them, he said.
被告人把大量尚未焚化的尸体从印度教焚化场中偷出来,由于穷人无法支付焚化的费用,常常把尸体丢到河里,所以他们也经常从河中获得尸体来源。
The men were also suspected to have dug up Muslim graves to get bones which could fetch them thousands of rupees in the black market.
被告人同时也被怀疑偷挖穆斯林坟墓来获得人骨,这些人骨在黑市的交易为他们带来了数千卢比的收入。
Trade in human bones and skeletons is banned in India and medical students are asked to study bone structure with skeletons made of fiber or plastic.
人骨交易在印度是被禁止的。医学院的学生被规定如果要学习人骨结构的话只能用纤维或者塑料制成的仿人骨道具。
