'It's tragic': why Hunter families are forced to wait weeks for funerals

By Anita Beaumont
Updated March 6 2019 - 4:04pm, first published 1:30pm
Sad times: Families have been forced to delay burials and funeral services while awaiting the results of an autopsy to determine a cause of death.
Sad times: Families have been forced to delay burials and funeral services while awaiting the results of an autopsy to determine a cause of death.

HUNTER families have been waiting up to three weeks to bury their loved ones due to an "unprecedented" number of coronial post-mortem cases.

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