A Romanian builder who injured his back travelled hundreds of miles home in a coffin.

Mitev Jordanov had been working in a village in Macedonia when the accident happened.

After a few days in hospital doctors told him he could go home, but that he could only be transported lying flat on his back.

Under local laws ambulances can only be used to transport people whose life is in serious danger. Taxi drivers also refused to take him saying they were not insured for such jobs.

So Mitev's boss borrowed a hearse from a friend who runs an undertakers and put him in a coffin and drove him back to Romania.

Mitev explained: "It was the only way we could think of to make sure I lay completely flat all the way."

Hang on a minute... Isn't Transylvania in Romania?

That's nothing! You should have seen him at the services...

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