A Day�s Toil in the Suicide Bombers� Graveyard

A Day�s Toil in the Suicide Bombers� Graveyard:

Khwaja Naqib Ahmad lays claim to one of the toughest jobs in the Afghan capital � burying the unclaimed dead, including suicide bombers.

One of the characters in SKINNER is interested in a problem he describes as “corpse load," all the dead bodies left following a disaster. Something, after all, must be done about them.

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