X-Message-Number: 12237
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 1999 20:09:09 -0400
From: Jan Coetzee <>
Subject: Drowned man awakens in Alexandria morgue

Cairo, Egypt -  A man pronounced dead after drowning off the
coast of Egypt's port city of Alexandria regained consciousness
after spending three hours in a morgue refrigerator, the Al-Akhbar
newspaper reported on Tuesday.
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Ali Abdel-Rahim Mohammad, 32, an Arabic teacher, said the last
thing he remembers before blacking out is a dizzy spell and seeing a
vision of his mother's face while swimming at the Alexandria beach on
Monday, Al-Akhbar said.
<P>
He was awakened by a loud bang and unfamiliar voices.
<P>
"I found myself locked inside tight walls of metal and whispers
of people I didn't recognize,'' Mohammad said.
<P>
Mohammed grabbed the hand of an attendant who was trying to close
the refrigerator drawer in the Alexandria morgue. His firm grip sent
the attendant and a family who had apparently come to identify the
body of a loved one scurrying out of the morgue yelling "help us!''
Mohammed said.
<P>
Mohammed stood on his frozen feet with difficulty and left the
morgue to call his family in the southern <A
href=/English/Africa/africafact/africaegypt.htm>Egyptian</A> city of
Malawi -
only to find that friends who accompanied him to the beach had
already told his family he was dead.

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J.C.

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