Wrong person cremated in funeral home mix-up

A grieving US family learned their 95-year-old great-grandmother had been cremated when they found a stranger’s body in her coffin, and a funeral home is being investigated in the incident.

Relatives of Aurelie Tuccillo noticed the wrong body when they arrived at the Buckmiller Brothers Funeral Home in Connecticut.

Police said that state and local officers found Ms Tuccillo had “inadvertently been cremated”.

Funeral home owner Wayne P. Buckmiller calls the mix-up “a most unfortunate incident”.

He said the home is working with the family to resolve the situation.

The state Department of Public Health is also investigating the incident.