Buried by mistake thousands of kilometers from home: the case of Faraj Jarjour, the Canadian who died in Cuba whose body was mistaken for that of another man

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Buried by mistake thousands of kilometers from home: the case of Faraj Jarjour, the Canadian who died in Cuba whose body was mistaken for that of another man

The family of a Canadian who died in Varadero (Cuba) in March has revealed that Cuban authorities mistakenly sent the body of the deceased to Russia, where he was buried in a city north of Moscow. The fact was that there was confusion between Faraj Jarjour, a 68-year-old Canadian of Syrian origin and resident in Montreal, and a Russian citizen 20 years younger. This week, those close to Faraj Jarjour reported that Cuban authorities repatriated t…