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- An Egyptian holidaymaker has virtually come back from
the dead.
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- The man, Ali Abdel-Rahim Mohammad, spent several hours
in a hospital mortuary refrigerator after being pronounced dead.
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- He had collapsed while swimming off the beach near the
port city of Alexandria, a popular holiday destination for Egyptians during
the hot summer months.
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- Speaking about his ordeal to an Egyptian newspaper, Mr
Mohammad said the last thing he remembers before blacking out is being
hit by a dizzy spell and seeing a vision of his mother's face
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- He only regained consciousness after hearing a loud bang
and unfamiliar voices. But by then he had been presumed drowned and placed
in a refrigerator in the mortuary.
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- Fright of their lives
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- "I found myself locked inside tight walls of metal
and whispers of people I didn't recognise," he told the Al-Akhbar
newspaper.
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- Too cold to speak, Mr Mohammad gave the few people in
the mortuary the fright of their lives, grabbing the hand of a medical
worker who was trying to close the refrigerator drawer.
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- With yells of "help us", the attendant ran
screaming from the mortuary, together with a family who had apparently
come to identify the body of a loved one.
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- They were not the only ones in for a shock. Tottering
on his frozen feet, Mr Mohammed left the morgue to call his family in the
southern Egyptian city of Malawi.
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- When he rang them, he found they had already been told
he was dead by friends who accompanied him to the beach.
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