Dead man walking . . .

AN elderly Vietnamese man who was declared dead and sent to a morgue overnight, was discovered alive and well the following morning when his daughter went to retrieve the body for the funeral.

Nguyen Van Quan, 73, was declared dead and taken to a Ho Chi Minh City hospital morgue but was found alive by his daughter the next morning, the Vietnam News daily reported yesterday.

“I was shocked when I saw the blanket that covered my father moving,” said Quan’s daughter. “When the morgue’s officials pulled back the blanket, my father’s eyes moved, brightening with joy.”