NAIROBI (PANA) - Confusion, shock and panic
gripped mortuary attendants and police officers in one of Kenya's agricultural
towns recently when a suspected gangster who had been presumed dead and
taken to the morgue suddenly sprang to life, kicking off the bed covers
with a violent jerk.
The suspect, taken for dead, after being
lynched by angry residents who suspected him of being a gang member in
Nyeri--some 113 miles north of Nairobi--had been taken to the town's mortuary
in a police van.
But immediately he was thrown onto the
mortuary bed, and perhaps sensing that the morgue's door was about to be
shut, the middle-aged man sprang back to life, sending morgue attendants,
and two police escorts scampering.