A newborn was nearly buried alive after hospital workers declared her dead minutes after her birth. The baby girl was saved from the horrifying fate when an undertaker preparing her body for burial heard her cry. Hit the jump to read the rest of the story.
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She was rushed back to the hospital, but died Wednesday of organ failure, a hospital official told the Associated Press.
The identities of the newborn and her 14-year-old mother have not been released. But the baby was born Tuesday in a hospital in Uberaba, Brazil. Minutes later workers thought she died.
The newborn being nearly buried alive is the latest in a string of bizarre stories around the world in which people mistaken for dead have regained consciousness.
Last week a man woke up screaming in a South African morgue after his relatives thought he had died.
In June, 49-year-old Russian woman Fagilyu Mukhametzyanov died from a heart attack when she woke up in a coffin surrounded by grieving family members.
