英男子30年后才發(fā)現(xiàn)自己致哀的不是女兒的墳墓

A British man said he felt "let down" after discovering he was mourning for his daughter at the wrong grave for 30 years.

一名英國男子日前表示，在發(fā)現(xiàn)自己在錯誤的墳墓面前為女兒哀悼了30年之后，他感到“很失望”。

George Salt told the BBC his daughter Victoria died in July 1988 -- just two days after she was born. The family buried the girl at the Southern Cemetery in Manchester.

喬治·索爾特向BBC透露，他的女兒維多利亞于1988年7月出生，但兩天后就去世了。家人將女孩安葬在曼徹斯特的南方公墓。

The father said he visits the grave site twice a year, but was surprised one day to find the grave he thought was Victoria's was empty.

這位父親表示，他每年都會去墓地兩次，但有一天他驚訝地發(fā)現(xiàn)，他之前認為是維多利亞的墳墓已經(jīng)空了。

"I looked down and was completely gobsmacked. I thought, 'Where's the stone gone?'" Salt told the BBC.

索爾特告知BBC:“ 我四下看了看，目瞪口呆。我想，'墓碑去哪兒了?'”

 

Salt searched around the cemetery and discovered the headstone at a public grave that contained the remains of Victoria and 16 other people in a different spot.

索爾特在墓地周圍搜尋，最后在一個公共墓穴處發(fā)現(xiàn)了那塊墓碑，墓穴里面有維多利亞和來自其他地方16人的遺體。

When the gravestone was erected in the 1980s, it was apparently moved to a vacant spot but employees discovered this year it was in the wrong area and moved it back.

墓碑在20世紀80年代豎立起來的時候，顯然被搬到了一塊空地上，但今年員工們發(fā)現(xiàn)它放錯地方了，于是把它搬了回來。

"I just wasn't told. I feel so let down," Salt said. "When you go to a grave, you sit and talk and say what your troubles are but the annoying thing is you're talking to a piece of ground where she isn't there."

索爾特說：“他們一直沒有告訴我這件事，我很失望。當你走向墳墓，坐在那里訴說著你的煩惱，卻最后發(fā)現(xiàn)你是在對著一塊并沒埋葬她的空地說話，這多么讓人惱火啊。”

The Manchester City Council apologized to Salt for the "distress he has suffered."

曼徹斯特市議會已經(jīng)就“索爾特所遭受的痛苦”而向他道歉。