Coffin conflict discovered in Philippine hostage crisis
Reportedly three coffins with the remains of Hong Kong tourists killed during a Philippine hostage crisis last week were mis-labelled.
A victim’s family arrived at a Hong Kong morgue to confirm their dead relative, but to their surprise, they discovered that the body in the coffin was a different victim.
The error happened at a Manila funeral home before the bodies were flown back to the southern Chinese city, the spokesman said, saying that the mistake has happened when they were placed from plain coffins to more elaborate caskets.
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