Unusual event in Cadiz: two corpses have been confused and one of them, whom his family was going to bury, was finally cremated. After the events, they have opened a prior information file to try to clarify what happened.
As advanced South Journalthe two bodies arrived at the Institute of Legal Medicine (IML) of Cádiz, but the identities were exchanged and a man from Malaga who wanted to be buried ended up being crematedwhile the remains of a woman who was to be cremated almost ended up being laid to rest in Malaga.
An investigation has been opened
The Andalusian Government has “deeply regretted what happened” and sources from the Ministry of Justice have indicated that “it is a situation that it should never have happened“In addition, they have apologized to the family and this has been conveyed from the IML management: “We are very sorry that due to this error they were not able to give the chosen burial place to their relative.”
In this regard, they have clarified that “as soon as they became aware of the events in the Cádiz Delegation, a prior information file was opened, which You already have an instructor appointed“. They have explained that they are in charge of collecting all the data to clarify the facts and circumstances that occurred in the procedure for delivering the bodies: “From the moment it arrives at the IML until it is delivered by the funeral home to the family, and know what mistake or mistakes have been made in the application of existing protocols”.
The events occurred between the province of Cádiz, where the error occurred, and that of Málaga, which was where knowledge of it occurred. Apparently, at the beginning of the week, a man whose family resides in a town in Malaga died apparently of natural causes in the Barbate area; Therefore, the body was transferred to the IML in Cádiz so that an autopsy could be performed.
A man and an older woman
In parallel, apparently, the corpse of an elderly person that had not been seen by the neighbors for days. Upon entering her home they found the woman’s body, which was also taken to the aforementioned IML. While the family of the deceased woman wanted her to be cremated, the man’s relatives asked that her remains be transferred to Malaga to be watched and the burial take place.
For reasons that are being investigated, the man’s body was cremated believing it to be that of the woman. Meanwhile, the man’s funeral home was notified to transfer the remains to Malaga, at which point the funeral home employees discovered that the body they were going to transport It was not a man’s, but a woman’s.
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