A woman who was declared dead after a car crash in South Africa is recovering in hospital after being found alive in a morgue's fridge. The unnamed woman had been taken to Carletonville morgue, in Gauteng province after showing 'no form of life' in the wake of a road smash.
But when a member of staff at the facility went to check on the body in the fridge, he is understood to have found that she was breathing. She was taken to hospital where she is now recovering from her ordeal, according to local reports.
An investigation has been launched into the blunder.
The ambulance company whose paramedics declared her dead have denied there is any proof of negligence.
'This did not happen because our paramedics are not properly trained,' said the operations manager of the firm, Distress Alert, according to TimesLive.
He said that staff had followed protocols when checking for life‚ which included looking for signs of a pulse and whether she was breathing.
Local reports say the woman was among a number of people caught up in a car crash on June 24 which left two others dead.
By Julian Robinson | Mailonline
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