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Funeral parlour owner arrested for corpse-fraud

Two people have been arrested in South Africa for "borrowing" a corpse as part of an elaborate life insurance scam, police have said.

A police spokesman said a woman in Durban had created a fake identity and paid towards insurance policies.

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