{"id":294057,"date":"2017-02-13T16:04:38","date_gmt":"2017-02-13T16:04:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=294057"},"modified":"2017-02-13T16:04:38","modified_gmt":"2017-02-13T16:04:38","slug":"mortuary-men-seize-corpse-at-cemetery-over-ghc150-debt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/02\/mortuary-men-seize-corpse-at-cemetery-over-ghc150-debt\/","title":{"rendered":"Mortuary men seize corpse at cemetery over GHc150 debt"},"content":{"rendered":"
There was drama at the Tema Community Nine Cemetery\u00a0on Saturday, when two mortuary men from the Tema General Hospital aggressively removed a dead body from its coffin at the cemetery, over the refusal of the bereaved family to pay an amount of GHc 150 as undertaking charges.<\/p>\n
The incident, which was a surprise to many, happened in the full glare of family members and sympathizers of the bereaved family, who had gone to lay their dead to rest.<\/p>\n
In a state of shock, the sympathizers who had gone to the cemetery to mourn with the bereaved family, stood helplessly,\u00a0as they looked on while the body was removed from the coffin by the two angry mortuary men.<\/p>\n