'Dead' Bengaluru Motorcycle Accident Victim Woke Up Right Before Autopsy

An Indian victim of a road traffic accident declared dead woke up moments before his autopsy started.

On February 27, 27-year-old Shankar Shanmukh Gombi suffered severe injuries to the head after a motorcycle accident in Mahalingapur, India.

He was rushed to a Belgavi private hospital where doctors said he couldn’t be saved and took him off life support. His family told the Times of India that they were informed of his death by the doctors.

According to a relative of the victim, he was bought by ambulance to a government hospital on Sunday night. After saying that he was dead, the hospital staff sent his corpse for postmortem.

At the postmortem room, a senior officer who was preparing for the autopsy noticed movements and found out that he was still alive.

The following day, Shankar’s body was sent to a Mahalingapur government hospital.

According to Dr. SS Galgali, he couldn’t get near the ambulance as a large crowd of around 2,000 people gathered around it.

When he had the chance to observe the ‘body,’ he saw Shankar’s legs and arms were trembling and realized that the man was still alive.  After that, the Ambu Bag portable respirator was removed from the victim’s throat.

The doctor said after a while, Shankar started to breathe on his own and his hands shook when he tapped.

He admitted that the private hospital doctors had had bad judgments when they declared his death.

Shankar is now being treated in another hospital and his condition is said to be getting better.

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