Thai man comes home months after being declared ‘cremated’

A Thai man has astounded his family by arriving home seven months after police declared him dead and cremated.

Sakorn Sacheewa from Thailand’s Si Ka Ket province was previously thought to have died of a digestive disease at a rented home in Phra Nakhon district on May 18. 

The 44-year-old’s family was asked to come and collect the body which had already become bloated and hard to identify.

A relative said that the teeth of the dead man they were looking at did not match Sakorn’s and told officials. 

But despite this, they were told to take the body away and later held a three-day funeral service in their home town.

Meanwhile, however, the real Sakorn Sacheewa was alive and well, and working in another part of the country.

Eventually he quit his job and decided to return home to see his family.

According to local media, they were so shocked when he walked in that they touched him to make sure he was real.

Sakorn, who was officially pronounced dead seven months ago, said a co-worker from Myanmar had stolen his identification card and disappeared. 

But the true identity of the dead man is still unclear and police plan to examine remains left from the cremation to solve the mystery.