Hong Kong  - The skeletons of at least two people have been jumbled up after casks of bones fell down a flight of stairs in a macabre accident in a Hong Kong cemetery, a news report said Friday.

The skeletons of seven people were transported on a motorized trolley in the Catholic cemetery when the trolley toppled down a flight of stairs, the South China Morning Post reported.

At least two of the seven stone casks broke open and the bones were jumbled in a pile on the ground, making it impossible to tell which bones were from which casket.

The bones were being moved from graves to a crematorium, a common practice in Hong Kong where because of shortage of grave space skeletons are cremated after 10 or more years.

Families of the deceased people whose bones were jumbled up may be offered compensation, a spokesman for the cemetery said, adding that it would depend upon "whether the bones can be sorted out." (dpa)