‘Dead’ baby wakes up and starts screaming moments before cremation

-Adapted from Daily Mail

A funeral home discovered a baby was alive two days after he was pronounced dead at a hospital in eastern China.

Shocked funeral home workers heard the baby crying and discovered he was alive at a funeral parlour in Hefei.

The boy has severe deformities and the hospital treated him until Monday, when his condition deteriorated. 

At less than one month old, his parents agreed to end his medical treatment at Anhui Provincial Children's Hospital, ninemsn reports.

Authorities revoked the license of the doctor who mistakenly declared the newborn boy dead, the health department in Anhui province said. 

Authorities have ruled that the doctor - identified only by the surname Cha - was negligent and that hospital's newborn division was chaotic.

'Because the baby still had life signs, we continued to give him transfusion to maintain his life for humanitarian reasons,' a hospital staff member told state news agency Xinhua.

The baby was born with a 'congenital respiratory system malformation', the report added.

The boy remains in critical condition.

Last month, a woman visiting a relative's grave in Sao Paolo, Brazil, was shocked to see a man crawl out of a grave.

The woman was at a cemetery in the suburb of Ferraz de Vasconcelos, Sao Paulo, when she heard faint noises then noticed the earth moving in a grave close by.

'I was terrified to see a man, who I thought was dead, trying to get out of the grave,' said the petrified woman, who asked not to be named.