An aggrieved man who was told by the doctors in a Casablanca hospital that his wife was dead, was shocked to learn she was alive 2 years after she was involved in a road accident.
The man identified as Abragh Mohamed, had held a funeral for someone he believed was his beloved wife, who ‘died’ as a result of the serious injuries she had suffered.
The whole situation took a new turn when his ‘late’ wife phoned into a popular TV programme designed to reconnect people who lost contact with their loved ones over the years.
Some of her family members had tuned in to watch the popular Moroccan television series ‘Al Mujtafun (Desaparecidos)’ or ‘Al Mujtafun (Disappeared)’, when she phoned in and explained how she had lost contact with her family, giving her husband’s name and house address.
Mohamed wasn’t home when the programme aired, but his friends who watched the programme, broke the news to him.
Here’s what he reportedly told the Spanish press:
“I did not know it was a different body that we buried and my wife was still alive.”
“I did not know it was a different body that we buried and my wife was still alive.”
The woman had lived in a small mountain town called Azilal. Mohamed had been told by the doctors that she had little chances of survival, and was told to go ahead and pay her hospital bills. He had travelled for four hours back to his home to look for money to offset the bills, and was told his wife had died on his return.
Mohamed had later received what he assumed was his wife’s body, already wrapped in a shroud and in a coffin, which he took back home to Azilal for her burial.
Questions which need answers are; what went wrong in the first place, why did it take the woman took two years to get in touch and where has she been?
