The Sunday Mail
Stranger than Fiction
A Zambian girl, Winnie Lufunja, was presumed dead and buried some two years ago after an illness.
She, however, later resurfaced in her family home in Ndola, Zambia, to the shock of her parents and people in the community.
The 19-year-old after reappearing said she was held captive spiritually and subjected to hard work in some unknown business premises, according to local media (Daily Nation).
The startling news caused commotion at her family house and the entire community, especially when authorities ordered that the remains of Winnie be exhumed to determine whether she was indeed the one.
After exhuming the burial site of Winnie at a local cemetery, bones and hair were found as human remains.
A pathologist has since extracted skin and hair samples to ascertain if the body inside the coffin was indeed Winnie’s.
The girl’s birth and death certificate were also requested for further investigations.
As her parents await the results of the DNA tests at a local police station, another couple has also emerged claiming to be the biological parents of Winnie, The Zambia Daily Mail reports.
More drama unfolds as people are beginning to wonder what the test results would be and what would become of the new couple claiming ownership of Winnie.
Similarly, South Africans were left in shock as a “dead” woman woke up in the mortuary fridge.
The local woman was found alive in a mortuary in Gauteng province after she had earlier been declared dead by paramedics.
She was discovered by a mortuary attendant who had gone to double-check the bodies.
After the attendant discovered she was breathing, she was rushed to a nearby hospital.
The unnamed woman was declared dead after she was involved in car accident in the early hours of the morning.
The accident occurred after the car she was travelling in lost control and rolled, local news outlets reported.
Two other people in the car died.
According to Gerrit Bradnick, the operations manager of the ambulance company that declared the woman dead, Distress Assist Ambulance, not only did their paramedics declare the woman dead, they also followed all protocols to check for life.
“Equipment used to determine life showed no form of life on the woman,” he said.
An investigation by the Gauteng Health Department was conducted to ascertain why she was initially pronounced dead.
A similar event happened in 2011 when an old man presumed dead by the family woke up screaming in Eastern Cape Province.
He had been found immobile and totally unconscious by his family.
Another case happened in 2016 when a motorcyclist who had been involved in an accident was declared dead only to wake up in a morgue fridge the next day. — face2faceafrica.com
