Tabloid News of Friday, 8 June 2001

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Dead Man walking

A survivor of the May 9 disaster at Accra Sports Stadium, who was taken for dead and sent to the mortuary at Ridge Hospital in Accra on May 9 woke up at midnight in the mortuary and took a car straight home.

  • Bennard, a third year university student told AFP: "as about 10 dead bodies lay on top of me, I decided to stop shouting and conserve the little energy left in me.

  • "Some other fans came round and started removing the shoes of the dead, watches and searching through their pockets. My own shoes were removed."