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’Dead’ Mississippi man kicks to escape body bag

USA: A funeral director and coroner in Mississippi got the shock of their lives when a man put in a body bag because he was believed to be dead kicked to get out just before they began embalming him.

The man, 78-year-old Walter Williams, had been pronounced dead after the coroner arrived at his home in Lexington, Mississippi, and found no pulse. He was then taken to the funeral home.