One more WTF!

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http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,2068121,00.html

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Body parts of British soldiers who died on operations in Afghanistan have been mixed up and placed in the wrong coffins.

The government has admitted that the remains of at least one serviceman, who died in Britain's worst military disaster in the war, ended up inside another victim's coffin.

The issue came to light only when the personal belongings from one of the dead were given by RAF officials to a family who said they were not his.

Trish Knight, whose 25-year-son Ben, a sergeant, died in the crash, said she was concerned that more body parts could have been mixed up and allocated to the wrong coffin: 'We don't know how many mistakes were made over this, but body parts were found in a wrong coffin and there may well have been more parts mixed up. We just don't know.'

She said the discovery almost prompted her to cancel Ben's funeral. 'We just thought: "How can we go ahead if we are not sure if it's Ben's body in there or maybe somebody else's"?'