SA man presumed dead wakes up in mortuary

An asthmatic patient, who was presumed to be dead by his family, woke up miraculously inside a mortuary of Eastern Cape, South Africa

Eastern Cape health department spokesperson Sizwe Kupelo said that the man, whose name has been withheld, fell unconscious while asleep at home.

"His family thought he had died," 24.com quoted Kupelo as telling Sapa.

"The family called a private undertaker who took what they thought was a dead body to the morgue, but the man woke up inside the morgue on Sunday at 17:00 and screamed, demanding to be taken out of the cold place," he added.

Kupelo said the two mortuary attendants initially felt it was his ghost, as he had been lying there for nearly 24 hours, but later on they discovered that he was indeed alive.

"We sent an ambulance to the funeral parlour to take the man to Saint Barnabas Hospital because he had been exposed to extreme cold for nearly 24 hours," added Kupelo. (