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I think perhaps the public are unaware of the scale of the devastation in the building.
I've mentioned this earlier - if all the complete bodies have been removed from the tower as stated and there are 19 bodies in the mortuary, that leaves at least 60 reported missing bodies that are incomplete.
I suspect 'complete' refers to not only bodies that aren't dismembered, but ones which aren't severely charred. If surviving residents have reported bodies piled up in corridors and stairwells, the intensity of the fire may have made it impossible to establish how many remains are in each pile without meticulous in situ forensic exploration in dangerous and difficult conditions.
Where there were explosions, bodies may be fragmented. If two charred arms and two legs are found, is that one child, or four?
If the aim is not only to establish the number of dead, but to identify the bodies and return them to loved ones for burial,
it's going to take a lot of painstaking forensic work.
Perhaps part of the problem is simply not being able to graphically describe the scenes of devastation to the public. It has been hinted at, but perhaps not many have, or want to put the pieces of information together. It certainly has been made clear that some bodies may never be identified on many occasions.
I could go on listing the difficulties that have been reported piecemeal in the media, but suffice it to say the people working the recovery phase probably could do without criticism and accusations right now.