A man who was thought to be dead has turned up at his family's home two months after they apparently buried him. 
 
 Aigali Supygaliev, from Kazakhstan, was pronounced dead after DNA tests on badly burned human remains proved with "with 99.2% certainty" that they were his. 
 
 Authorities issued an official death certificate and he was "buried" in September in the Muslim cemetery of Tomarly, his family's home town just north of the Caspian Sea port of Atyrau. 
 
 His brother Esengali Supygaliev, told the Azh.kz news site: "We held a wake, and the extended family organised a traditional 'konil shai' ceremony," where friends can share tea and sympathy with the bereaved. 
 
 "When Uncle Aigali walked through the door hale and hearty two months after we'd buried him, my daughter Saule nearly dropped dead of a heart attack," Esengali added. 
 
 Aigali, 63, had left home one June morning and didn't come back. "Aigali had been known to wander off for a week of two before," his sibling said. 
 
 So, when Aigali walked through the door two months later, he had some explaining to do. 
 
 It turns out that he had taken up an offer of work in a nearby village from a man he'd met down the market that fateful day. 
 
 Once the work was finished, four months later Aigali walked all the way back to Tomarly. 
 
 Neither the police nor the regional justice department were available for comment on the story. 
 
 The forensic scientist who carried out the DNA analysis told Azh.kz that she stood by her 99.2% findings, "but you must never forget that other 0.8%". 
 
 The Supygalievs, who had paid for a tombstone, commissioned a stone shrine over the grave in the Kazakh tradition and even returned pension payments for the two months that Aigali was "dead", are considering legal action. 

 Image copyright Azh.kz Image caption O brother, where art thou? 
 
 A Kazakh family was recently coming to terms with the violent and mysterious death of their elderly relative, when he just turned up at home. 
 
 "When Uncle Aigali walked through the door hale and hearty two months after we'd buried him, my daughter Saule nearly dropped dead of a heart attack," Esengali Supygaliev told the Azh.kz news site. 
 
 The 63-year-old had left home one June morning and didn't come back. "Aigali had been known to wander off for a week of two before", Esengali said, so the family waited a month before contacting the police - who in due course asked them to identify a badly-burnt body. 
 
 Tea and sympathy 
 
 DNA tests showed that these were the mortal remains of Aigali Supygaliev "with 99.2% certainty", the authorities said, and issued an official death certificate. 
 
 In September the family buried Aigali in the Muslim cemetery of Tomarly, their home town just north of the Caspian Sea port of Atyrau. 
 
 "We held a wake, and the extended family organised a traditional 'konil shai' ceremony," where friends can share tea and sympathy with the bereaved, Esengali said. 
 
 Image copyright Farkhat Abilov/Azh.kz Image caption The Tomarly burial plot still waits for Aigali 
 
 So, when Aigali walked through the door two months later, he had some explaining to do. 
 
 It turns out that he had taken up an offer of work in a nearby village from a man he'd met down the market that fateful day. Job done, four months later Aigali walked all the way back to Tomarly. 
 
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 Neither the police nor the regional justice department were available for comment on the story. The forensic scientist who carried out the DNA analysis did tell Azh.kz however that she stood by her 99.2% findings, "but you must never forget that other 0.8%". 
 
 The Supygalievs were not pleased that they had already paid for a tombstone, and commissioned a stone shrine over the grave in the Kazakh tradition. They had even returned the pension payments for the two months that Aigali was "dead", and are considering legal action. 
 
 But the family are also contemplating a bigger question. "Who did we bury? Perhaps his family are looking for him," Esengali concluded ruefully. 
 
 Image copyright Farkhat Abilov/Azh.kz Image caption Memento mori: Aigali Supygaliev's death certificate 
 
 Reporting by Azim Rakhimov and Martin Morgan 
 
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– "Uncle Aigali," as Kazakhstan's Aigali Supygaliev is known to those close to him, is also known for wandering off from time to time, sometimes for a week or two at a stretch, so when the 63-year-old vanished from his hometown of Tomarly in June, his family waited a whole month before they reported him missing, per the BBC. But bad news soon came via the police, who turned up a charred body and forensic evidence that stated "with 99.2% certainty" that the remains were those of Supygaliev. His brother tells the Azh.kz site, via Sky News, that the family held a wake, buried the body in September, and mourned his loss. Which is why their hearts stopped when Supygaliev nonchalantly strolled through the door two months after he'd been supposedly been interred. Supygaliev's explanation for his absence: He'd met someone at the market in June who offered him work in a neighboring village, so he accepted the job. Meanwhile, the forensic scientist who'd thrown out that 99.2% surety claim on the dead man's DNA simply shrugged and said, "You must never forget that other 0.8%." Supygaliev's family is considering legal action—they're miffed about the money they laid out to bury the body and for the pension funds in Supygaliev's name they'd sent back—and want to identify the person they laid to rest. "Perhaps his family are looking for him," his brother notes. (A "dead man" in Brazil showed up at his own wake.)