Old woman wakes up inside coffin in Ecuador
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A video posted on social media last week showed Bella Montoya lying in an open coffin and struggling to breathe, with the help of two men. Her son, Gilbert Barbera, later said she banged on the coffin from the inside in an attempt to escape, while relatives wept, according to AFP.
She was previously announced dead on June 9.
After the heart-wrenching incident, Ms. Montoya was kept in a hospital in the city of Babahoyo, in Ecuador’s Lis Rios province. But she eventually died of a stroke on June 16, according to the local health department.
"This time my mother is really gone. My life is no longer the same," local newspaper El Universo quoted Mr. Barbera as saying.
Ecuador's health ministry has ordered an investigation into whether Ms Montoya was first declared dead by mistake.
Local newspapers said Ms Montoya suffered from a condition called catalepsy, in which a person loses sensation and consciousness and the body becomes stiff.
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