A South African woman is recovering in hospital after being discovered alive in a mortuary fridge.
The woman was taken to Carletonville morgue, in Gauteng province, having been declared dead by paramedics following a road accident.
Ambulance company Distress Alert said she had shown "no form of life", South Africa's TimesLive website reports.
But when a morgue worker returned to check on the body in the fridge, he found the woman was breathing.
An official has confirmed to the BBC the woman is now being treated in hospital after being referred by forensics officers. She has not been named.
An investigation into the incident is being carried out, but Distress Alert operations manager Gerrit Bradnick said there was "no proof of any negligence" on his company's behalf.
"This did not happen because our paramedics are not properly trained," he told TimesLive.
Mr Bradnick told TimesSelect she was one of several people involved in a car accident which left two others dead on Sunday, 24 June.
This is not the first time this year someone has woken up in a mortuary after being declared dead.
In January an inmate at a jail in Spain's Asturias region regained consciousness hours before an autopsy was due to be performed.
Three doctors had certified him dead.
It is also not the first time this has happened in South Africa. Seven years ago, a 50-year-old man woke up screaming in an Eastern Cape morgue. In 2016 another road accident victim, from KwaZulu Natal, was declared dead, only to be found breathing the next day.
He died five hours after the discovery.
Source: BBC
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It is always happening in Ghana. I believe my mum died in the fridge. It what i have always been thinking about. The morgue system should be changed in Africa. I the UK, their mortuaries are small rooms with single beds. The dead bodies is laid on this single bed a room so that when the person wakes up, he just presses a bell, he is examined treated and discharged. Why can't Ghana do that? I want to launch a campaign to make the government aware to change the mortuary system because the fridge is also killing prematurely. Some people don't die because of accident, they are presumed dead because, they go into comma. Many of accident victims go into comma for hours or days and wake up in the fridge. Accident victims should not be rushed into the fridge. They should be put on a bed for days before they are declared dead. Please somebody should join me to make the government aware. It can happen to any of us. It's been my worry for so many years. TO CHANGE THE FRDGE SYSTEM IN THE MORTUARIES.
If it can happen in SA N Spain then GH DI33 NO COMMENT OO
THIS IS PURELY negligence
THIS IS PURELY A MIRACLE.