Jamie Rolando Urbina Torres, Mayor of a small town in Peru, jumped into an open casket and pretended to be dead when police arrived to arrest him for breaching lockdown rules.

The mayor was pictured in a coffin and pretends to be a coronavirus victim to avoid arrest after breaking curfew rules to go drinking with friends.

Torres was pictured lying in an open casket wearing a face mask when Police officers came to arrest him in the town of Tantará, in the south of the country, according to Dailymail.

The Mayor who has previously been accused by locals of failing to take the threat of the virus seriously and failing to implement safety precautions in the town.

He was also accused of failing to put in proper safety checks to ensure people from outside the town doesn’t come into the town.

Police says he violated curfew and social distancing laws in order to drink liquor with his friends and was drunk when he was arrested.