Funeral home finds person inside body bag still alive

A US care home in suburban Des Moines, Iowa, has been fined 10,000 dollars (£8,185) after a funeral home discovered a woman sent to it in a body bag was still alive (Alamy/PA)

A US care home in suburban Des Moines, Iowa, has been fined $10,000 (€9,147) after a funeral home discovered a woman sent to it in a body bag was still alive.

The Iowa Department of Inspection and Appeals said in a report filed on Wednesday that the 66-year-old woman was declared dead at the Glen Oaks Alzheimer’s Special Care Centre in Urbandale on January 3.