India, Jan. 3 -- A 65-year-old Kolhapur resident, Pandurang Ulpe, returned home alive and ticking more than two weeks after being declared dead by doctors at a local clinic, owing to a twist of fate that involved an ambulance and a speed breaker.

On December 16, Ulpe, who resides in Kasaba-Bawada area of Kolhapur city, suffered a heart attack. As he fell off his bed, beads of perspiration on his body, the family rushed him to a nearby private clinic in Kolhapur.

Doctors at the hospital however pronounced him dead as there was no movement in his body. His family, devastated by the news, arranged for an ambulance to transport what they believed was his body back home where relatives and neighbours had gathered for his last rites.

As the ...