Family and friends of Gilberto Araujo (right) had spent the
night grieving beside his open coffin. But the body they were weeping over was
that of a workmate (left) who relatives say looked uncannily like 41-year-old
Gilberto
Gilberto Araujo had not been seen by his family for four
months when police called to say he had been killed. Brother, Jose Marcos
Araujo, mistakenly identified similar looking Genivaldo Santos Gama and took
body home for a wake..
‘The confusion started when news started circulating that a
car washer had been shot dead,’ Jose Marcos’ wife, Ana Paula, told the UOL
Internet news portal. ‘Police called my husband and told him that his brother
had been killed and his body was at the morgue,’ she explains.
In fact, his fellow workmate had been dead all along. The
police had assumed this may have been the missing person and called his brother
who Identified him wrongly!
By a very strange co-incidence, a few hours before the
burial, a friend of Gilberto’s saw him walking down the street and told him
that his family was mourning him,’ he said.
So he went to his mother’s home to let everyone know he was
very much alive.’ When Araujo showed up at his wake ‘some people fainted and
others were so scared they ran away. It was a big shock,’ family friend Maria
Menezes told the G1 online news site.
Gilberto’s mother Marina Santana told reporters: ‘I am
overjoyed. What mother wouldn’t be after being told that her son is dead and
then sees him alive.’ Talk about one freaky incident! A mistaken identification
of a dead body led to a brother and a son coming home!
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