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Winner of free funeral in Italy 'has not claimed prize'

(Agencies)
Updated: 2008-09-18 14:04

ROME - The winner of a free funeral has not turned up to claim his prize after ticket number 11 was chosen in a raffle in southern Italy, an Italian newspaper reported Tuesday.

A worker polishes a coffin in a firm in the central Italian town of Cesena, July 2005. The winner of a free funeral has not turned up to claim his prize after ticket number 11 was chosen in a raffle in southern Italy, an Italian newspaper reported. [Agencies]

The holder of the winning ticket in the raffle -- held in the town of San Marco in Lamis -- is entitled to a free lined coffin, a tombstone, copper candlesticks and a grave site, Il Corriere del Mezzogiorno reported.

There is no deadline for claiming the prize and the winner can give it to somebody else, raffle organisers said, according to the paper.