Saturday, September 22, 2007

'Dead' man wakes up under autopsy knife

A Venezuelan man, who had been declared dead woke up in the morgue in excruciating pain after medical examiners began their autopsy.

Carlos Camejo, 33, was declared dead after a highway accident and taken to the morgue, where examiners began an autopsy only to realise something was amiss when he started bleeding. They quickly sought to stitch up the incision on his face.

"I woke up because the pain was unbearable," Camejo said, according to a report on September 14 in leading local newspaper "El Universal" .

His grieving wife turned up at the morgue to identify her husband's body only to find him moved into a corridor - and alive.