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By Ryan Merrifield
02:46, 14 AUG 2020
Cemeteries and funeral homes are struggling to keep up with the surge of cases across Latin America - leading engineers in Bolivia to come up with an unsettling, but affordable, solution.
The five-metre by two-and-half-metre contraption is powered by liquefied petroleum gas, which means families who are struggling pay for funeral expenses have a cheaper option.
Carlos Ayo, an environmental engineer, and one of the designers of the "crematory oven", said it came about to help the country in its hour of need.
Crematoriums are expensive and only found in Bolivia's main cities.
"We wanted to help in this pandemic," he told the Guardian. "We asked ourselves, wouldn't it be better if it could be mobile, to move it from one place to another?"
02:46, 14 AUG 2020
Cemeteries and funeral homes are struggling to keep up with the surge of cases across Latin America - leading engineers in Bolivia to come up with an unsettling, but affordable, solution.
The five-metre by two-and-half-metre contraption is powered by liquefied petroleum gas, which means families who are struggling pay for funeral expenses have a cheaper option.
Carlos Ayo, an environmental engineer, and one of the designers of the "crematory oven", said it came about to help the country in its hour of need.
Crematoriums are expensive and only found in Bolivia's main cities.
"We wanted to help in this pandemic," he told the Guardian. "We asked ourselves, wouldn't it be better if it could be mobile, to move it from one place to another?"
