Alive in mortuary

A SEVERELY injured person who was declared dead at the scene of a road accident in South Africa and taken to a mortuary turned out to be alive.

The Gauteng province health department said the person, reported by South African media to be a woman, was taken to a hospital where a forensic officer realised there had been a mistake following the June 24 accident.

The health department said the victim’s family has been contacted and an investigation is under way.