Woman given for dead "resurrected" in the fridge of a morgue

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A woman in South Africa recuperates at the hospital after being found in a morgue fridge.

The woman was taken to the morgue in Carletonville, Gauteng, after being declared dead by paramedics following a car accident on June 24.

The ambulance company Distress Alert said the victim had not shown "signs of life" according to the TimesLive website of the 39, South Africa.

But when an employee of the morgue came back to inspect the body in the refrigerator, he found that the woman was breathing.

An official confirmed to the BBC that the woman was being treated in a Johannesburg hospital, after being referred by the judicial authorities. His name has not been revealed.

• The country where it takes months (and even years) to bury their dead

The authorities have begun an investigation to clarify the facts, while the family of the woman has expressed his discomfort

we do not Not talk about it without the presence of the police, paramedics and officials of the morgue. We need answers, "said a family member at the BBC

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" The problem is that we need answers, that's all we want and at the moment there is no clarity, "he added.

Gerrit Bradnick, distress alert operations manager, said there was no "No evidence of negligence" from his company

"This did not happen because our paramedics are not properly trained," he told TimesLive.

Bradnick TimesSelects stated that the woman was one of the people involved in a car accident on Sunday, June 24, which caused two deaths.

Not the first to "resurrect" [19659020] This is not the first time that someone wakes up in a morgue after being declared dead.

In January, an inmate from the Asturias, Spain, regained consciousness a few hours before an autopsy .

The doctors gave the death certificate.

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This This is not the first time that this has happened in South Africa.

Seven years ago, a 50-year-old man woke up screaming in a morgue in Eastern Cape Province.

In 2016, another victim of a road accident in KwaZulu Natal was declared dead only to be breathed the next day.

The man died five hours later to be discovered.

• "A dead man resurrected" in a South African morgue

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