'Dead' Vietnamese man revived Posted by Scott Manning on August 23, 2003 | Comments (0)

An elderly Vietnamese man thought to have died in a hospital revived after spending the night in the morgue, state media and a doctor said Friday.

Nguyen Van Quan, 73, was declared dead and taken to a Ho Chi Minh City hospital morgue on the night of August 15 but was found alive by his daughter the next morning as she was retrieving the body for the funeral, the Vietnam News daily said.

"I was shocked and frightened when I saw the blanket that covered my father moving," Quan's daughter was quoted as saying.

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