Funeral mix-up in Adana, man exhumed from burial place

Funeral mix-up in Adana, man exhumed from burial place

Yesterday, in the course of the midday hours, a site visitors accident befell within the Kozan district of Adana, and 63-year-old Vedat Gök misplaced his life. His household got here to assert the physique this morning. Then, with out correct identification, the Gök household acquired the physique from the hospital morgue. The funeral was buried within the cemetery of Karahamzalı village.

Later, within the late hours of the night time, the family of Erdoğan Mertkan (87), who all of a sudden had fallen in poor health and handed away within the hospital, additionally got here to the identical morgue. During the identification course of, Mertkan’s family realized that the physique didn’t belong to him. Upon examination, it was revealed that as an alternative of Vedat Gök’s physique, Erdoğan Mertkan’s funeral had been mistakenly handed over to his family.

The morgue officers knowledgeable the Gök household concerning the scenario. Mertkan’s buried funeral was exhumed and handed over to his family.

Mertkan’s funeral was reburied at Kozan cemetery, and Gök’s funeral was laid to relaxation within the cemetery of Karahamzalı village as soon as once more.

Source: www.anews.com.tr