A used coffin appeared over the Día de Andalucia, bank-holiday weekend in a rubbish hopper outside Lobres cemetery. As soon as it was brought to the attention of the First Councillor for Lobres, Ana Mingorance, it was removed.

She explained that this macabre appearance was the result of a chain of errors: what had happened was that a niche had been opened and the remains removed to be placed in a different niche, probably a shared family one. Normally, a coffin is in a deteriorated state by this time – you can’t open a niche until four years have passed – and it is easily broken up and disposed of, but it appears that the cemetery maintenance workers had trouble with this one, so they stuck it in a hopper.

The councillor phoned the family concerned and apologized profusely for this lack of foresight and tact on the part of the workers. The family accepted the apology with good grace and that was the end of it. However, the good folk of Lobfes are far from happy with what had happened

(News: Lobres, Costa Tropical, Granada, Andalucia)