It turned out that the Kakogawa Police Station in Hyogo Prefecture had combined up the our bodies of two males enshrined within the station and mistakenly handed over the physique of 1 to a different bereaved household. The physique has already been cremated and police have apologized to the bereaved household.
According to the Kakogawa Police Station, on March 29, among the many our bodies of two males enshrined within the mortuary within the station, the bereaved household visited to select up the physique of a 66-year-old man, however the police officer mistakenly They handed over the physique of one other man, aged 69.
Originally, as a substitute of handing over the corpse enshrined within the higher tier, the corpse within the decrease tier was handed over.
The two males had the identical surname.
On the sixth, greater than per week after the handover, one other workers member observed that the physique was combined up, however the handed over physique had already been cremated.
The identify was written on the bag during which the physique was put, however it’s mentioned that the trigger was that the police officer uncared for to test it and didn’t even test the face.
Masatoshi Yoshino, deputy chief of the Kakogawa Police Station, mentioned, “I apologize for causing further pain to the bereaved family. We will provide thorough guidance to prevent this from happening in the future.”