An investigation is underway after a weird incident involving two males utilizing a lifeless physique to commit pension fraud.

On Friday, two males in Eire's County Carlow reportedly entered a submit workplace with the physique of an older man who had died earlier within the day. In accordance with witnesses, the lads carried the physique in a propped-up place, as if to make it look like the person was not lifeless. The pair then tried to say the lifeless man's pension examine, in accordance with The Guardian.

Their effort to get his examine started earlier, with one of many males coming into the submit workplace at round 11:30 a.m. He tried to say the cost, however was turned away and instructed that the workplace might solely give the cost with the pensioner himself current. He returned not lengthy after with one other man and the lifeless physique.

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Two males in Eire used a lifeless physique to try to declare a pension examine at a submit workplace Friday. Above, Irish cops.Charles McQuillan/Getty Photographs

After a submit workplace worker raised issues in regards to the lifeless physique, the lads dropped it and fled the scene. No money was exchanged through the incident.

The state of affairs is now being dealt with by the Garda, the nationwide police for the Republic of Eire. To this point, it has been decided that the deceased man was 66 and effectively acquainted with the youthful males who tried to gather his pension. The boys haven't but been apprehended and are believed to be of their 30s.

An post-mortem carried out on the physique decided that the person seemingly died round three hours earlier than the submit workplace scheme, Unbiased Eire reported. This ran counter to Garda's preliminary suspicion that he had been lifeless for a day or two.

"I heard there was a commotion within the submit workplace," Carlow Mayor Ken Murnane instructed an area newspaper. "I am going by there on a regular basis and it is a very busy submit workplace—usually there'd be a queue out the door there. I used to be completely shocked to listen to about what occurred. I can not consider anybody would do one thing like that. It beggars perception, I am simply shocked."

Native councilor Fergal Byrne additionally spoke on the incident within the native press, referring to the lifeless man as "a pleasant man by all accounts and somebody who triggered no offense to anybody."

"The workers within the store are very shook up from it," Byrne added. "I might like to supply my sympathies to the person's household additionally. It is a weird and upsetting state of affairs."

Newsweek reached out to the Garda for a touch upon this story.