'Dead man' returns at his wake in RP

'Dead man' returns at his wake in RP

MANILA (AFP): A man who went missing for a month went berserk when he returned to his Manila home and discovered his wife and neighbors holding a funeral wake for him, complete with a corpse they assumed to be his, police said yesterday.

An enraged and upset Isidro Caturla terrified the already frightened mourners on Saturday, breaking everything in the house except for the casket bearing the unidentified corpse.

His wife Ligaya, 33, told police that she had claimed the body of a man found floating in the Pasig river as that of her missing husband citing striking similarities, down to the bedsores on his back, police officer Eliseo Victorio told reporters.

The "dead" husband, described by police investigators as "mentally unstable," has taken to heavy drinking since the weekend melee, the police officer said.

There were no details on the identity of the dead man.