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CARACAS -- A Venezuelan man who had been declared dead woke up in the morgue in excruciating pain after medical examiners began their autopsy. Carlos Camejo, 33, was declared dead after a highway accident and medical examiners didn't realize anything was amiss until he started bleeding.

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CARACAS (Reuters) - A Venezuelan man who had been declared dead woke up in the morgue in excruciating pain after medical examiners began their autopsy.

Carlos Camejo, 33, was declared dead after a highway accident and taken to the morgue, where examiners began an autopsy only to realize something was amiss when he started bleeding. They quickly sought to stitch up the incision on his face.

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"I woke up because the pain was unbearable," Camejo said, according to a report on Friday in leading local newspaper El Universal.

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 reach hospital officials to confirm the events. But Camejo showed the newspaper his facial scar and a document ordering the autopsy.


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Man Declared Dead, Wakes at Autopsy
Medical examiners realised to their horror that what they thought was a cadaver was in fact a person who was still alive and in excruciating pain after they began an incision on his face that started to bleed.

The patient Carlos Camejo was officially declared dead after a highway accident and taken to the morgue after a highway accident. He stated, "I woke up because the pain was unbearable."

His wife arriving at the morgue saw he had been moved into the corridor and very much alive. Rueters sighted the man's facial scar and the documentation confirming the autopsy.

Camejo had been declared dead after a traffic accident near Caracas and transported to the hospital morgue. Pathologists realized that there was something wrong when Carnejo started bleeding during the autopsy.

I woke up because the pain was unbearable, the 'dead man' told El Universal newspaper. His wife, who had been asked to come to the morgue to identify him, found him sitting in the hall - alive.

The hospital did not wish to comment on the incident. As proof of his claims, Carnejo offered a scar and a document ordering autopsy
Carlos Camejo was pronounced dead shortly after he was involved in a car accident in Venezuela. In typical fashion doctors began a post-mortem but in a freakish turn of events the 33-year-old victim was obviously a survivor.







Camejo awoke to "unbearable" pain after doctors began his autopsy by making an incision on his face. Noticing that Camejo was bleeding the medics realized that they no longer had a fatality on their hands and that became even more obvious when Carlos awoke.







Doctors weren't the only ones surprised; Camejo's wife had gone down to the morgue to identify her husband's body. When she arrived to find out he was alive she was elated.







Carlos is reportedly recovering.