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17 bodies found in New Jersey nursing home after anonymous tip

(WNBC/NBC)—An anonymous phone call led police in New Jersey to a gruesome scene at a nursing home that has been ravaged by the coronavirus.

Police say they found 17 bodies piled inside a small morgue at the Andover Subacute and Rehabilitation Center in Sussex County.

The tip said the bodies had been moved there after being stored in a shed.

68 people have died inside the senior facility, 26 of whom had tested positive for the virus and two were staff members.

Read the full story on NBC New York.

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