A man from the small village of Santa Teresa in Paraguay returned home after three days away to find his family mourning a body they thought was his.
Juan Ramón Alfonso Penayo, 20, had last been seen on Thursday leaving the family home on the border with Brazil.
The area is hotly disputed between a number of drug gangs and when Mr Penayo did not return, his family assumed he had met with trouble.
The family held a wake in the village only for Mr Penayo to turn up and find them grieving over the coffin they thought held his body.
Officials said that if no-one else claimed it, the body would be interred as "NN", the initials given to unidentified people, from the Latin nomen nescio or name unknown.
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