2 weeks after a body was buried, a casket had to be dug up after it was discovered that the morgue accidentally sent the wrong body.

A hospital in China apologized after their morgue released the wrong bodies to 2 families.

This led them to dug one of the corpses out of the ground 2 weeks after the initial funeral was held.

The error was the responsibility of the First Hospital of Cheng’an County, in Hebei Province, which is located in North China.

The incident came to light after the family arrived to retrieve the body of the 21-year-old.

The family was shocked to find that the 21-year-old, who has been identified as Cheng Guaiguai, was not there.

Instead, the relatives were given the body of an 80-year-old.

The family later discovered that the body of the 21-year-old had been handed to another family and was buried 13 days earlier.

During an interview, Cheng Yahong, the uncle of Cheng Guaiguia, said that the morgue charged them around 9,600 RMB (£1,100) to keep the corpse until it was ready to hold a funeral.

Talking about the mix-up, Cheng said:

“My nephew died in a traffic accident on 15 March and was kept in the morgue at Cheng’an People’s Hospital for more than 20 days. Yesterday (8 April), we went to the morgue to receive his body, but we were given someone else’s corpse. That’s when we contacted the police. In the end, we discovered that his corpse had been released to a family in the town of Matou on 25 March. They buried him on 27 March. It had already been 13 days. Officers from our local police station and workers from the hospital morgue accompanied us to Matoan and exhumed his body. This is a joke of astronomical proportions.”

The family of Cheng was able to reclaim the body.

They later held a new funeral for him.

Talking about the incident, Cheng added:

“We’ve been compensated, and he has now been buried. I won’t say how much they paid out in damages, only that they compensated us and the Matou Town family too.”

The police have launched an investigation for the incident.