Sleeping Woman Mistaken for Dumped Body in Mount Vernon, KZN
Two alarmed callers thought they had stumbled upon a disturbing scene in Mount Vernon, KwaZulu-Natal, after spotting what appeared to be a body wrapped in a white cloth beside an unpaved road.
The unusual discovery prompted an emergency response on Monday, with Reaction Unit South Africa (RUSA) officers and paramedics rushing to the area following separate reports of a possible body being dumped.
When responders arrived, they found a woman lying on an embankment, tightly wrapped in a white cloth.
What initially appeared to be a potentially serious incident quickly took an unexpected turn.
Woman suddenly responds to rescuers
As first responders examined the woman, the 26-year-old suddenly became responsive.
She told them that she had simply been sleeping.
The explanation left responders with an entirely different situation from the one they had expected to find when they arrived at the scene.
The woman declined to provide further details about why she was sleeping beside the road or how she came to be lying on the embankment.
She then covered herself with the cloth and went back to sleep.
Callers believed a body had been dumped
The incident was reported by two separate callers, highlighting how the woman’s position and the way she was wrapped had led people to believe a body had been abandoned alongside the road.
RUSA responded to the reports as a precaution and assessed the situation before establishing that the woman was alive and responsive.
No further details were provided about the circumstances surrounding the incident.
