'Dead' Venezuelan wakes up at autopsy

A Venezuelan man who had been declared dead woke up in the morgue after medical examiners began their autopsy.

A Venezuelan man who had been declared dead woke up in the morgue after medical examiners began their autopsy.

Carlos Camejo (33) was declared dead after a highway crash, but examiners at the morgue realised something was amiss when he started bleeding. They quickly stitched up the incision on his face.

"I woke up because the pain was unbearable," Mr Camejo said, according to a report in a local newspaper .

His grieving wife turned up at the morgue to identify her husband's body only to find him moved into a corridor - and alive.

Reuters could not immediately confirm the events, but Mr Camejo showed the newspaper his facial scar and a document ordering the autopsy.

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