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Police Return Funeral Urn Found in Benidorm Supermarket Locker

Officers identified the deceased's relatives through police databases after public appeals failed to find the owners.

Urna con cenizas hallada en un supermercado de Benidorm (Alicante).
Devuelven a sus propietarios la urna con cenizas encontrada en un supermercado en Benidorm
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Los familiares ya tienen la urna de su ser querido tras una intensa investigación policial que localizó a los parientes.

Overview

  • A supermarket manager found an urn containing human ashes in a customer locker and alerted Benidorm Local Police, who took custody of the item.
  • The police posted an image and asked the public for help but say those online appeals did not identify the owners.
  • Using the name on the urn and searches of police databases and records from other forces, officers located the family and returned the ashes the next day.
  • The family told police they had left the urn in the locker because they were doing home renovations and believed it would be safe there, and they did not know the locker had been opened.
  • Authorities said they had procedures for unusual lost items and would have transferred the urn to the municipal cemetery if they had not been able to find the relatives, and similar incidents have occurred before in the city.