Thai woman found alive in coffin before temple cremation

Pairat Soodthoop, the temple’s general and financial affairs manager, told The Associated Press that the 65-year-old woman’s brother drove her from the province of Phitsanulok to be cremated

The woman has been taken to hospital. Picture: Wat Rat Prakhong Tham via AP

A woman in Thailand shocked temple staff when she started moving in her coffin after being brought in for cremation.

Wat Rat Prakhong Tham, a Buddhist temple in the province of Nonthaburi on the outskirts of Bangkok, posted a video on its Facebook page, showing a woman lying in a white coffin in the back of a pick-up truck slightly moving her arms and head, leaving temple staff bewildered.