Corpse intact with full head of hair after 10 years

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The corpse of a woman who died 10 years ago in the Dominican Republic has been found to be intact with a full head of hair after her family decided to move her body from her tomb in the Montaña Cemetery to a different location. The corpse could even stand up with minimal support. “In the 13 years that I have worked here, I have never seen anything like it,” Antonio Abreu, a worker at La Colonia Cemetery, told Primer Impacto.

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