An Indian man thought to have died after a motorcycle crash started moving moments before doctors were set to carry out an autopsy on him.
The 27-year-old from Mahalingapur in the southern state of Karnataka was taken to a private hospital in a critical condition over the weekend following the crash.
Doctors there declared him dead and took him off a ventilator, before his family moved him to a nearby government hospital for a post-mortem examination on Monday.
However, moments before the doctors were set to cut the man’s ‘corpse’ open, a pathologist saw the body move, his family told local media.
The doctor assigned to carry out the post-mortem said that he had been informed that the man was dead, the Times of India reports.
He said: ‘As per request of his family members, we visited the hospital and found that he was shaking his hands and legs. When we examined him again thoroughly, we found he was alive.
‘Now he has been admitted to a private hospital for further treatment.’
A government health officer has since confirmed this and said the injured man was then immediately admitted to another hospital, where his condition has been improving.
The official said doctors at the private hospital had exercised ‘bad judgement’ when they removed him from the ventilator and declared he was dead.
The family has yet to launch a formal complaint, the official added.