(CNN) A mass burial was held in Indiana on Wednesday for the more than 2,400 fetal remains found last year in the Illinois garage of a doctor who performed abortions.

Dr. Ulrich Klopfer operated three abortion clinics in South Bend, Indiana, before his license was suspended in 2015. He died on September 3.

Indiana Attorney General Curtis Hill held the burial at a cemetery in South Bend, "keeping them together in rest, each of them connected by their common fate," he said.

"Today, we finally memorialize the 2,411 unborn babies whose remains were senselessly hoarded by Dr. Ulrich Klopfer after he performed the abortions from 2000 to 2003," Hill said at the burial. "These babies deserved better than a cold, dark garage or the trunk of a car."

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