Pic shows: The funeral; A young man gave his grieving family the shock of their lives when he suddenly walked into the wake they were holding in his honour. The incident occurred in the village of Santa Teresa in the eastern Paraguayan department of Amambay. Twenty-year-old Juan Ramon Alfonso Penayo returned home after he had last been seen several days earlier, and found his family and friends mourning his death. Police had earlier discovered the gruesome remains of a burned body that could not be identified, and family members believed it was Penayo. As drug gangs operate in the area, they feared that he had become embroiled in trouble and met an untimely end. Organised crime specialist Candido Figueredo told local media that Penayo left his home on Thursday last week and had not come back. When police found the unidentifiable burned body, it was concluded that it was Penayo and his family organised the funeral and buried the remains. However, they were stunned to see him casually walk into the house in the middle of the wake they were holding for him. Areas of northern Paraguay’s Amambay Department, which borders the Midwestern state of Mato Grosso do Sul in Brazil, are hotly contested between rival drug organisations, according to official sources. Reports suggest that there is little border control in the region, making it attractive territory for traffickers.