An Egyptian holidaymaker has virtually come back from
             the dead.

             The man, Ali Abdel-Rahim Mohammad, spent several
             hours in a hospital mortuary refrigerator after being
             pronounced dead.

             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.

             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

             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.

             Fright of their lives


                                 "I found myself locked inside
                                 tight walls of metal and
                                 whispers of people I didn't
                                 recognise," he told the
                                 Al-Akhbar newspaper.

                                 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.

             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.

             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.

             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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