Funeral parlour denies dumping bodies at Lebombo border
A funeral parlour based in Soweto deny dumping three containing the bodies of Mozambican citizens at Lebombo border on Sunday.
MBOMBELA – Sesamotho Funeral Services owner Robert Marks said his funeral parlour had handed the coffins with the bodies inside over to the family for transportation as they had not had the funds to pay them for the transportation.
According to a Mozambican consulate official, the bodies of two men and one woman were been transported by a private funeral service from Johannesburg and were on their way to Maputo province and Gaza.
When it was found that the paperwork was not in order for the bodies to cross the border, the coffins were dumped on the side of the road.
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Roberts added that he was not aware if the family had got in touch with another funeral parlour to transport them at a cheaper cost. “I am not sure if they got someone else to do it, but we definitely did not transport them to the border.”
The relatives accompanying the bodies were put up overnight in a house in Ressano Garcia. “We contacted the government run morgue in Tonga and the bodies were kept there. Our offices in Pretoria together with the department of health arranged the paperwork, “said a consulate official.
The paperwork was completed on Tuesday and all the bodies had been repatriated to Mozambique.
