Ashes of women mixed together at Incheon city crematorium due to employee’s mistake

Seungwhaewon, a municipal crematorium in Incheon Family Park. The Incheon Facilities Corporation

It was confirmed that the ashes of two women were mixed at the Incheon Family Park crematorium in Bupyeong-gu, Incheon.

The Incheon Facilities Corporation said that on January 22, the ashes of two unrelated women were mixed into one urn at Seungwhaewon, a municipal crematorium in Incheon Family Park, due to an employee's mistake.

At the time, the crematorium staff mixed the ashes of one woman's ashes with the ashes of another woman's ashes without removing them from the grinding machine that already contained the ashes.

When the bereaved families did not receive the urns at the scheduled time, they confirmed this by checking the closed-circuit television (CCTV).

The bereaved families are considering filing a lawsuit against Incheon Facilities Corporation for damages for the incident.

Incheon Facilities Corporation divided the mixed ashes of the two deceased into two urns and placed them in the arboretum at the back of the crematorium.

"It seems that the employee in charge made a mistake," said an official from the Incheon Facilities Corporation, adding, "We are conducting an audit of the employee and plan to take action based on the results."

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