Lottery for a burial plot! Officials in a small Italian town are selling lottery tickets - for burial spot in the local cemetery. Marano, near Naples, has run out of room at the local cemetery. So the authorities have created a new emergency graveyard containing 48 plots.
But authorities fears that local people would try to bribe the officials to get burial plots. So they have decided to stage a public lottery. This weird public lottery means families winning places will be guaranteed a grave plot.
Work on a new cemetery with more than 1,000 grave plots in the Marano town is just starting. Cemetery caretaker Mario Granata said: "We had no choice but to take emergency measures. The situation was getting out of control." Link
But authorities fears that local people would try to bribe the officials to get burial plots. So they have decided to stage a public lottery. This weird public lottery means families winning places will be guaranteed a grave plot.
Work on a new cemetery with more than 1,000 grave plots in the Marano town is just starting. Cemetery caretaker Mario Granata said: "We had no choice but to take emergency measures. The situation was getting out of control." Link
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