Police reportedly found 17 bodies piled inside a small morgue at one of New Jersey’s largest nursing homes.

According to the New York Times, the Andover Township Police Department in Newton, N.J., made the disturbing discovery after checking out an unfounded tip that a body was being stored in a shed at the Andover Subacute and Rehabilitation Center.00:0107:51

Instead, they found 17 bodies in a morgue at the complex meant to store four bodies.

“They were just overwhelmed by the amount of people who were expiring,” Andover Township Police Chief Eric Danielson told the Times.

A call to Danielson Wednesday night was not immediately returned.

The Times reported the bodies were among 68 recent…