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matcom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-24-04 07:48 AM
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Corps, Seven Weeks Dead, Fails To Rise
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South African police are going to court to demand the burial of a 77-year-old man who has been dead seven weeks despite his family saying a "prophet" had foretold his resurrection, police said on Wednesday.

Free State resident Paul Meintjes's body was returned to his family late last week after the local mortuary refused to store it any longer. The body was kept in his widow's room for three days before officials said it was a health risk and ordered it returned to the mortuary.

"The body is OK -- it is still recognizable," said police spokesman Captain Sam Makhele in Bloemfontein. "But after a few days out of the fridge the smell was not OK."

The police hoped a magistrate would decide soon, but it was not clear if the family would oppose the move, he said.

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