Woman pronounced dead found alive in morge refrigerator

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A South African woman, who was pronounced dead at the scene of a car crash, was reportedly found alive inside a morgue fridge.

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A worker made the discovery after he went to check on the body and noticed the woman was breathing, according to the BBC. Paramedics pronounced the woman – who has not been identified – dead at the scene of a car crash that killed two others on June 24, with the ambulance company claiming she showed “no form of life,” Times Live reported.

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The woman has been transported to a hospital where she is recovering, according to the BBC. An investigation is underway as family members are demanding how such a crucial oversight could happen. “The issue is that we need answers, that's all we want and we don't have any clarity now," a family member told the BBC. The manager of the ambulance company told the Times Live that the incident wasn’t a fault of the paramedics being improperly trained and that there was “no proof of any negligence" on the company’s part.

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