Heartbreaking scenes took place at Lomza when divers finally succeeded in bringing to the surface the bus in which eighteen Polish Jews were drowned when it plunged into the Bug River. Only sixteen bodies were recovered. The others are missing. The families of the missing men together with members of the Lomza burial society had been praying all day long near the scene of the accident.
In view of the Jewish ritual the government permitted the immediate burial of the victims of the disaster without performing autopsies.
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