*The family of an Ecuadorian woman who had been declared dead was left stunned when she began knocking from inside the coffin during her wake.
The woman, 76-year-old Bella Montoya, was rushed back to the hospital hours after mourners gathered for her wake last Friday, ABC 7 reports.
“It gave us all a fright,” Bella’s son, Gilberto Barbera, told The Associated Press.
The doctors who handled her case at Martín Icaza Hospital in Babahoyo are now under a government investigation. The ministry formed a technical committee to examine how the hospital issues death certificates.
According to the family, Montoya was unconscious when she was taken to the hospital Friday after suffering a possible stroke and cardiopulmonary arrest. The ministry said a doctor on duty declared her dead after she was not responsive to resuscitation.
The family was given a death certificate and moved her body to a funeral home for a wake that same day, according to ABC 7.
“There were about 20 of us there,” Barbera said. “After about five hours of the wake, the coffin started to make sounds. My mom was wrapped in sheets and hitting the coffin, and when we approached we could see that she was breathing heavily.”
Montoya is now under intubation in the hospital, and her prognosis is grim, Barbera told The AP.
Scroll up to watch the YouTube video of the shocking moment when family members remove the woman from the coffin.
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