A woman has been found alive inside a morgue fridge after being declared dead by paramedics.
The woman was in a serious car accident in South Africa’s Gauteng province and taken to Carletonville morgue after ambulance company Distress Alert said there was “no form of life.”
A morgue worker then later found the woman was breathing in the mortuary fridge.
BBC reports that the unnamed woman is now being treated in hospital.
A member of the woman’s family said that they were in shock and that they haven’t been given any information.
They said:
“As a family we won’t talk about this unless the police, paramedics and the mortuary officials who were involved are present. We need answers.
“The issue is that we need answers, that’s all we want and we don’t have any clarity now.”
The ambulance company’s operations manager has said that there is “no sign of negligence” on the service’s behalf.
An investigation into the women’s false death is ongoing.
