A group of mourners desperately smashed into a concrete tomb after hearing a dead teenager who ‘woke up in a coffin’.
In the footage, family members can be seen smashing through the tomb in a bid to free 16-year-old Neysi Perez – after her voice was allegedly heard from within.
Frantic relatives had claimed that the glass viewing window on her coffin had been smashed – and her husband reported hearing banging and muffled screams from within.
But when medics arrived at the scene, they found no signs of life and the teenager was later reburied.
Ms Perez, who was three months pregnant, reportedly fell unconscious after waking up in the night to use the outside toilet at her home in La Entrada, western Honduras.
It was believed she may have collapsed in an apparent panic attack after hearing a burst of gunfire.
But when the teenager started foaming at the mouth her religious parents called the local priest believing she had become possessed by an evil spirit.
Relatives told how the priest tried to exorcise her, but she later became lifeless and was rushed to hospital, where three hours later doctors declared her dead.
Describing the moment that he heard his wife’s muffled screams, her husband Rudy Gonzales said: ‘As I put my hand on her grave I could hear noises inside. I heard banging, then I heard her voice. She was screaming for help.
‘It had already been a day since we buried her. I couldn’t believe it. I was ecstatic, full of hope.
Ms Perez’s screams were also heard by cemetery worker Jesus Villanueva, who said: ‘I convinced myself that the screams were coming from somewhere else. I never imagined that there was someone alive in there’.
Doctors believe that Ms Perez may have suffered a severe panic attack which temporarily stopped her heart – causing her to wake up inside the coffin.
Her family have also criticised medics for allegedly being too quick to sign her death certificate.
'That afternoon the girl's husband came to me begging me to get her out because she was alive.
'He was hysterical. The family were soon here and started breaking through the tomb, shouting her name.'
Ms Perez was taken by truck to the nearest hospital in San Pedro Sula, where she was carried in still inside her coffin.
But although medics tried to revive her, all the tests they carried out showed that she was clinically dead.
Doctor Claudia Lopez recalled: 'The whole family rushed in, almost breaking the door down, carrying the girl in her casket.
'We evaluated and tried everything but the girl was dead. They put her back in the coffin and took her away again, back to the cemetery.'
Ms Perez's mother Maria Gutierrez firmly believes her daughter was buried alive and blames medics for being too quick to sign her death certificate.
She said: 'The doctors declared her dead but everybody else around me kept telling me she wasn't. She didn't look like she had died.
'Even after a day in the tomb the colour of her body was normal, her corpse didn't smell, she just looked like she was in a deep sleep.
'There was no rigamortis, her body was still flexible, it was impossible that she had been dead for so many hours.
'We were all so happy. After being declared dead for such a long time, everybody was saying that she had come back to life.
'We were all so happy. I thought I was going to get my daughter back.'
Source: Metro
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