キューバで死亡のカナダ人、誤ってロシアに埋葬

【オタワＡＦＰ＝時事】先月キューバで死亡したカナダ人男性が、誤ってロシア・モスクワ近郊の町に埋葬されていたことが判明し、カナダ当局は遺体の帰国に向けて奔走している。キューバで別の遺体と取り違えられ、誤った国に送られていたという。（写真は資料写真）
　シリア出身でカナダ国籍のファラジュ・アラー・ジャルジュールさんは３月下旬、休暇を過ごしていたキューバのバラデロの海で遊泳中に急死した。
　遺体はカナダに搬送されたと考えられていたが、ケベック州の遺体処置専門家が埋葬準備に取り掛かろうとしたところ、ひつぎの中の男性とジャルジュールさんの遺族に提供された写真の男性が似ても似つかないことに気付いた。
　カナダ国営放送ＣＢＣによると、ひつぎに入っていた遺体は髪が豊かで、入れ墨をしていて、ジャルジュールさんの年齢より２０歳は若く見えた。
　一方、２０１６年に内戦下のシリアを逃れてカナダへ移住したジャルジュールさんは６８歳で、頭髪はなかった。
　キューバのブルノ・ロドリゲス・パリジャ外相はＳＮＳへの投稿で、取り違えを「不幸な出来事」と表現し、遺族に謝罪した。
　ジャルジュールさんの娘ミリアムさんはＣＢＣに対し、「（遺体を）墓から掘り出してカナダに送る」つもりだと述べ、「良い状況とは言えないが、選択の余地はない。私たちがどうにかできることではなく、我慢するしかない」と語った。【翻訳編集ＡＦＰＢＢＮｅｗｓ】
〔ＡＦＰ＝時事〕（2024/04/30-17:01）

A Canadian man who died in Cuba last month was mistakenly buried in a Russian town north of Moscow, and officials on Friday were scrambling to repatriate his body.
A government source who was not authorized to speak on the matter told AFP it had been a challenge to determine what had happened to the body of Faraj Allah Jarjour.
Efforts were now being made to bring his body back to Canada, the official said, after it was found that two bodies had been switched in Cuba before being sent to the wrong countries.
Jarjour, originally from Syria, was vacationing in Varadero, Cuba, when he died suddenly during a swim in the ocean in late March.
His remains were believed to have been sent to Canada, but mortuary technicians in Quebec tasked with preparing the body for burial discovered the man in the coffin looked nothing like a photograph his family provided.
The cadaver, public broadcaster CBC reported, had a full head of hair, tattoos and looked 20 years younger.
Jarjour, who landed in Canada in 2016 after fleeing war in Syria, was 68 years old and had no hair.
Cuban Foreign Affairs Minister Bruno Rodriguez apologized to the family for the mix-up, describing it in a social media post as an unfortunate incident.
His Canadian counterpart, Melanie Joly, said she shares the utmost concern for the unimaginable situation his family faces.
They're going to un-bury him and send him to Canada, Jarjour's daughter Miriam told CBC. It's not a good situation, but we don't have a choice. It's not in our control. We can only be patient.