Pakistani man wanted for trying to revive father's corpse

Pakistani police are hunting a man who dug up his father’s two-year old corpse and took it home in a hijacked ambulance to try to bring him back to life.

“Abdul Rehman dug up the corpse on Thursday night after he had hijacked an ambulance and its driver at gunpoint and took it to his home,” said Ghulam Murtaza, a duty officer at Ferozabad police station in the southern city of Karachi.

“He kept the corpse, which was nothing but a skeleton in his bedroom, for well over 12 hours. He escaped when we raided the house. We have buried it again,” Murtaza said.

Rehman faces a year in jail for defiling a corpse, police said.