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Families shocked by body mix-up at funeral parlour

An East London family was horrified to find the wrong body when they went to view their loved one at the mortuary. Their relative, they later discovered, had already been buried by another family. The bodies were both taken to the mortuary on April 11. Denzel Fuller, owner of Integrity Funeral Homes, said the error happened because of the accidental switching of the name tags by a staff member who had mistakenly taken off the tag while they were washing the body — and replaced it on the wr...

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