A FAMILY was stunned when a grandfather was found by police — months after attending his cremation.

    Miguel Angel Gomar De Luna was known to have fled his sleepy nursing home in Mexico to go on a massive booze binge.

    The Sun reports the 74-year-old ended up sleeping rough and begging for more cash to buy even more alcohol.

    After months of searching for him in the cold winter months, officers called the family to say they had found a badly decomposed body matching his description.

    His daughter, Lucero Gomar Ramos, was shown pictures of the corpse but it was in such a bad state she struggled to recognize her father.

    But she was told if she did not confirm the body as that of her missing father, they would not be able to release him to the family, forcing her to sign papers confirming his death.

    Days later a funeral was held for Miguel and the body was cremated with the ashes returned to the family.

    But on Feb. 24 this year, the family got another call saying Miguel had been found alive.

    When he finally returned to the family home he was still drunk, with bandages around his head from unknown injuries sustained during his months living rough.

    A video of the bizarre reunion in Chihuahua, Mexico, shows Miguel slurring his words and saying: “They thought I was dead, but I just walk and walk.”

    Lucero said, “Imagine our surprise when we spoke to police who told us that they had located him on the street, we could not believe it. We thought he was gone.”(SD-Agencies)