Sisters seeking damages for dropped coffin

STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Nov. 21 (UPI) -- Two sisters said they want a district court Stockholm, Sweden, to force a group of undertakers to pay them damages for dropping their father's coffin.

The lawyer for the two sisters, whose identities were not reported, alleges the undertakers carrying the coffin during the February 2008 funeral were drunk and dropped the casket on its side inside the grave, The Local reported Saturday.

"Both daughters were in shock and ran away in tears from the cemetery," attorney Michael Abejon alleges in the Sodertorn District Court claim filed by the sisters.

"They didn't dare to look in the grave as they were convinced the coffin had opened and their dead father had fallen out."

The Local said both sisters have been on sick leave since the funeral incident occurred. The two siblings want the funeral directors, whose identities were also not reported, to pay them $2,895 in compensation.