Saturday, 30 November 2024

Grandfather walks through the door - two months after his family had him cremated

The family of Miguel Angel Gomar De Luna had come to terms with his death and taken back his ashes - then the police tracked him down on the streets

A family were stunned when a grandfather was found by police - months after attending his cremation .

Miguel Angel Gomar De Luna, 74, had escaped his nursing home and gone on a drinking spree, sleeping rough and begging for more money to buy booze.

After months of searching for him in the cold winter months, officers called the family to say they had found a badly decomposed body matching his description.

His daughter, Lucero Gomar Ramos, was shown pictures of the corpse but it was in such a bad state she struggled to recognise her father.

El Diario Man turns up alive a few days after he's cremated
Miguel Angel Gomar De Luna returned home two months after his own funeral

But she was told if she did not confirm the body as that of her missing father, they would not be able to release him to the family, forcing her to sign papers confirming his death.

Days later a funeral was held for Miguel and the body was cremated with the ashes returned to the family.

But on February 24 this year, the family got another call saying Miguel had been found alive.

He returned to the family home drunk, with bandages around his head from unknown injuries sustained during his months long bender.
 
He had escaped his nursing home and embarked on a mammoth drinking spree

A video of the bizarre reunion in Chihuahua, Mexico, shows Miguel slurring his words and saying: "They thought I was dead, but I just walk and walk."

Lucero said: "Imagine our surprise when we spoke to police who told us that they had located him on the street, we could not believe it.

"We thought he was gone."

It is not clear who the body mistaken for Miguel was.

The family also face a battle to gain back their relatives identity, having already been declared legally dead.

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