Furious mortuary workers storm cemetery, seize corpse over N3,000 bills

There was a recent drama at a cemetery in Ghana, when a mortuary attendant with the Tema General Hospital stormed the burial ground to seize a dead body over an unsettled balance of GH¢40 (nearly N3,000).

According to trending reports online, it was gathered that the relations were supposed to pay him for services he rendered. 

Eyewitness report say, the mortuary worker in the company of a colleague, stormed the cemetery while the body was being interred, seized the coffin, opened it, picked out the dressed corpse and started heading back to the mortuary. 

The conduct of the mortuary men shocked mourners who had gathered at the graveside to pay their last respect to the deceased. 

Meanwhile, family elders in the company of some friends managed to save the situation which paved the way for the deceased to be buried.

[National Helm]