Funeral residence in Poland apologises after physique falls from hearse into visitors

A funeral residence in Poland has apologised after a physique that it was transporting fell out of a hearse and into visitors.

Polish media reported {that a} man was driving down a avenue on Friday in Stalowa Wola, a metropolis in south-eastern Poland, when he noticed a sheet on his automobile window. When the sheet slid down, he noticed a physique mendacity on the highway. For a second the driving force feared that he had hit the individual.

Native media printed a picture of the physique mendacity on a white-striped pedestrian crossing, the place it had tumbled out of the hearse.

The corporate transporting the physique, Hades funeral companies, issued an announcement on Saturday taking accountability for the incident and blaming a technical failure of the hearse.

“It’s with deep remorse that we inform you that on account of an sudden technical failure of the electrical tailgate lock within the hearse through the transport of the physique of the deceased, an unlucky occasion occurred which doesn’t replicate the excessive requirements of our firm, our deep empathy in direction of the households of the deceased, and the respect we all the time present to the deceased,” the corporate wrote in an announcement posted on its web site.

It apologised to “all those that have been disenchanted and upset by this occasion”.