ANG THONG: A funeral was called to an abrupt halt on December 12 after mourners opened the coffin simply before the cremation was to start and realized they have been about to burn the incorrect corpse.
Closet was ostensibly for 39-year-old Prachuap Arachon, found lifeless of obvious heart failure in Chachoengsao at the end of October.
Finding Mr Prajuap’s ID card on the body, Chachoengsao Police managed to trace down who they thought have been the lifeless man’s relations in Ang Thong and arrange for the body to be returned home.
Khomkrit Khrongton, who helped elevate the orphaned Mr Prachuap, agreed to host the funeral as Mr Prachuap’s true family members are very poor.
Mr Khomkrit arranged the funeral to be held at Wat Chang in Ang Thong’s Wiset Chai Chan District. The service started on December 11 with prayers for the deceased. The cremation was scheduled for the following day.
When they opened the coffin before the cremation, however, they discovered that the body inside was certainly not that of Mr Prachuap.
Wichit Iamsamang, a former village chief and Mr Prachuap’s stepfather, stated that Mr Prachuap didn’t visit his home village fairly often.
“I’m fairly certain the physique within the coffin isn’t Mr Prachuap. It doesn’t seem like him at all,” Mr Wichit mentioned after seeing the physique.
“We decided to cease the cremation, as it’s against the law [to cremate an unknown body with out permission]. We’ll should try and discover out whose body it actually is. We will contact Chachoengsao Police and the rescue foundation that brought us the physique. We’re additionally going to try and find Mr Prachuap to verify he’s nonetheless alive,” he added.
After contacting police, it emerged that in September Mr Prachuap reported to police that he had lost his nationwide ID card.
Relatives then rang associates and acquaintances of Mr Prachuap and soon found somebody who confirmed that they’d seen Mr Prachuap a few days earlier – and he was very much nonetheless alive.
Mr Khomkrit said that the funeral preparations had price him 32,555 baht.
The corpse of the unknown man will finally be cremated as a pauper if his id cannot be confirmed or his relatives contacted..
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