United Arab Emirates reveals its only crematorium

With foreign workers making up more than 80% of the population in the United Arab Emirates, it is inevitable that many deaths registered there are foreign.

The cost of death - from coffins to repatriation - can be high, especially for families of low-income workers whose employers do not pick up the costs.

Don Fox runs the first crematorium for non-Muslims in the UAE, and Simon Atkinson went to meet him.

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