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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Maroosha Muzaffar

Woman declared dead by doctors starts breathing and ‘hitting the coffin’ during own funeral

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A 76-year-old woman from Ecuador who was pronounced dead last week started gasping for air and hitting on the insides of the coffin at her funeral, according to reports.

Bella Montoya, who was admitted to a hospital on Friday after she suffered “a cardiac and respiratory arrest” and was later pronounced dead by local doctors, startled mourners when she started banging on the inside walls of the coffin as her relatives were preparing to change her clothes ahead of the burial.

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