The authorities of the University of Benin Teaching Hospital, UBTH, said it will conduct a mass burial for 270 corpses if the owners fail to claim them within the next six weeks. Dr Ehizogie Egbeobauwaye Adeyemi, the coordinator of mortuary services at the hospital, disclosed this in an interview with newsmen in Benin City. Adeyemi gave the breakdown of the corpses as 201 infants and 69 adults. Dr Adeyemi added that the contact addresses and phone numbers provided by the owners of the corpses to the hospital were no longer reachable or valid. She said that at the expiration of the six-week ult…