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07-03-2018, 06:49 PM
'Dead' woman wakes up in a morgue. Why does this keep happening?
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A woman was taken to the morgue and pronounced dead after a car crash near Johannesburg in South Africa.*
The only problem? She wasn't dead.
SEE ALSO: Shane, somehow, is reportedly coming back to 'The Walking Dead' (https://mashable.com/2018/06/18/shane-walking-dead-return/)
According to the BBC (https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-44681264), the unnamed woman woke up in a mortuary fridge after a car pile-up on June 24 which reportedly left two others dead (https://select.timeslive.co.za/news/2018-07-02-getting-it-dead-wrong-woman-found-alive-in-morgue-fridge/).
The woman was discovered by a morgue worker, according to the news service, and she is now recovering in a hospital east of Johannesburg.
The woman's family declined to comment on the incident to the BBC, but said, "We need answers."
So, how did this happen? An investigation is reportedly underway. Ambulance company Distress Alert, who mispronounced the woman dead, told news publisher Times Live (https://www.timeslive.co.za/news/south-africa/2018-07-02-getting-it-dead-wrong-gauteng-woman-found-alive-in-morgue-fridge/), “Equipment used to determine life showed no form of life on the woman." Read more... (https://mashable.com/2018/07/03/woman-wakes-up-in-morgue/)
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A woman was taken to the morgue and pronounced dead after a car crash near Johannesburg in South Africa.*
The only problem? She wasn't dead.
SEE ALSO: Shane, somehow, is reportedly coming back to 'The Walking Dead' (https://mashable.com/2018/06/18/shane-walking-dead-return/)
According to the BBC (https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-44681264), the unnamed woman woke up in a mortuary fridge after a car pile-up on June 24 which reportedly left two others dead (https://select.timeslive.co.za/news/2018-07-02-getting-it-dead-wrong-woman-found-alive-in-morgue-fridge/).
The woman was discovered by a morgue worker, according to the news service, and she is now recovering in a hospital east of Johannesburg.
The woman's family declined to comment on the incident to the BBC, but said, "We need answers."
So, how did this happen? An investigation is reportedly underway. Ambulance company Distress Alert, who mispronounced the woman dead, told news publisher Times Live (https://www.timeslive.co.za/news/south-africa/2018-07-02-getting-it-dead-wrong-gauteng-woman-found-alive-in-morgue-fridge/), “Equipment used to determine life showed no form of life on the woman." Read more... (https://mashable.com/2018/07/03/woman-wakes-up-in-morgue/)
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