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Two South African men have been arrested for going on a drinking spree in a stolen hearse with a body in the back.

The men were caught in Soweto after the hearse ran out of petrol, reports the BBC.

They had asked three women they had met at a drinking den to help push the hearse, but the women told the police.

The hearse's driver told The Sowetan newspaper he was shocked at the theft.

Siphiwo Mkhize said he had parked the hearse outside his house while he went inside to get money to buy fuel.

"It is a shocking thing to realise there are people who could steal a hearse with a dead person inside," he said.

"Going shebeen-hopping with a corpse takes the cake. What kind of people are these?"

John Dlomo from the Community Policing Forum in the township of Soweto said the men appeared to be drunk when they were arrested.