Wednesday, 16 January 2008

Cambodian man turns up alive at his own funeral

Posted : Tue, 15 Jan 2008
Author : DPA

Phnom Penh - A Cambodian family thought they had seen a ghost when the husband and father they believed they were cremating turned up alive and well at his own funeral, local media said Tuesday.

Khmer-language newspaper Koh Santepheap said the family had decided to hold a funeral for Oum Souv, 24, after the dedicated family man went missing for two days and two nights and a subsequent search of jungle nearby turned up an unclaimed decomposing body.

However, the real Souv had been drugged, robbed and left for dead in woodland in a neighbouring village and he came to and made his way home to his distraught family members just as they began cremating the wrong man, the paper said.

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