Woman declared dead in Ecuador knocks on coffin during her wake

Son Gilberto Barbera says the sound that came five hours into the service ‘gave us all a fright’

Beautiful flower arrangement used in a bouquet display for a funeral on a coffin in a hearse

A 76-year-old woman who was declared dead at a hospital in Ecuador astonished her relatives by knocking on her coffin during her wake, prompting a government investigation into the hospital.

“It gave us all a fright,” son Gilberto Barbera told the Associated Press, adding that doctors said his mother’s situation remained dire.