Baby survives for six hours in morgue fridge after being wrongly declared dead

Morgue [Photo: Courtesy]

A premature baby born at just 23 weeks survived six hours in a morgue refrigerator after wrongly being declared dead. Undertakers say the newborn started crying and moving when they arrived to to pick up his body and hand it over to his parents for the funeral.

Hospital chiefs have now launched an investigation. The incredible survival story happened at a hospital called La Margarita in the Mexican city of Puebla. Footage showing the moment the baby’s father watched over the crying tot and urged him to "carry on fighting" and pull through after an emotional reunion is now going viral.