A Manitoba family is heartbroken after being asked to exhume their loved one's body, because he was mistakenly buried in a previously sold cemetery plot earlier this month.

A Manitoba family is heartbroken after being asked to exhume their loved one's body, because he was mistakenly buried in a previously sold cemetery plot earlier this month.

"It's just reopening the wounds that were just starting close," said Angela Griffith, whose 62-year-old father, Dan Griffith, died in his home in Deloraine, Man. — about 250 kilometres southwest of Winnipeg — on Christmas Day.

Dan Griffith's body was buried in the Deloraine Cemetery on Jan. 4, but his family has now been told the plot belongs to another family. They've been asked to have his body exhumed and relocated. (Submitted by Courtney Hainsworth)

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Dan Griffith's body was buried in the Deloraine Cemetery on Jan. 4, but his family has now been told the plot belongs to another family. They've been asked to have his body exhumed and relocated. (Submitted by Courtney Hainsworth)

The family held a small graveside burial on Jan. 4, Griffith said. They couldn't have a full funeral due to pandemic restrictions.

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