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| 'Dead' Indian pilgrim wakes up in morgue |
| 2008-08-07 |
| An Indian pilgrim knocked unconscious in a stampede that killed 150 people woke up in a morgue as doctors prepared to perform a postmortem on him, a newspaper reported Wednesday. Mange Ram, 19, lost consciousness in the stampede triggered by rumours of a landslide that caused panic among thousands of people climbing a steep mountain path, the report said. Ram told the Times of India he awoke in a hospital morgue after Sunday's tragedy at the Naina Devi shrine in the northern state of Himachal Pradesh. "When I woke up, I was in the middle of a row of bodies waiting for postmortem," he said. "My throat was parched and I asked for water. Towering over me the doctors and nursing staff at Anandpur Sahib Civil Hospital looked dazed. "They must have been surprised to see a dead man come alive like that," he said. Sat Pal Aggarwal, a doctor on the pilgrimage, said few checks were carried out to see if victims were alive and might have been saved. "People were dumped quite haphazardly into trucks without following any procedure or checking if they were alive," the paper quoted him as saying. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #3 OK, someone has to do this: "I'm not dead." "What?" "I'm not dead!" "'Ere. He says he's not dead!" "Yes, he is." "I'm not!" "He isn't?" "Well, he will be soon. He's very ill." "I'm getting better! . . . I think I'll go for a walk." |
| Posted by: Mike 2008-08-07 13:00 |
| #2 "Dr. Quincy! Dr. Quincy! This one's still twitching!" "Here, Sam, lemme see... Hmmm... [Craaaack!]... There. That's fixed it." |
| Posted by: Fred 2008-08-07 08:01 |
| #1 150 "killed" is a pretty loose term if Mange Ram is any example. |
| Posted by: Jack is Back! 2008-08-07 03:24 |