Mystery of ‘bone room’ in Melbourne health office investigated by coroner

Court told human remains appear to be from a number' of people but no record of their origins has been found

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Workers have stumbled upon a bone room" containing the remains of multiple unknown people inside a Melbourne health agency's corporate offices.

A nurse educator noticed fluid leaking into a hallway from a disused room at Eastern Health's administrative building, opposite the Box Hill hospital, on 14 February, the Victorian coroners court was told on Thursday.

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