'Dead' woman passes away at hospital

Idukki (Kerala) : An ailing woman, who was rushed to a hospital after being kept in a mobile morgue by relatives who presumed her dead, breathed her last here, the police said today. Relatives of the woman identified as Ratna amma, a plantation worker, had yesterday presumed her dead after seeing no movement in her body. They had also shifted her to a mobile morgue for sometime.

However, some neighbours noticed tears flowing from her eyes and found her foaming from the mouth following which police was immediately informed. The 51-year-old woman was immediately shifted to a private hospital here, where she later died last night, police said.

She had been undergoing treatment for jaundice since the past three months at the medical college hospital in Madurai in neighbouring Tamil Nadu. The doctors had discharged her on Tuesday, saying she could be taken home.