Woman who was mistakenly ‘BURIED ALIVE’ tried to ‘fight her way out of sealed coffin’ after being laid to rest 11 days before
A woman is believed to have been buried alive by mistake and lay conscious inside her coffin for 11 days before trying to fight her way out of the stone tomb. Rosangela Almeida dos Santos, 37, appears to have desperately tried to escape her wooden casket, which had been nailed shut after she was buried alive. But she had already died by the time family members smashed open the tomb last Friday after locals reported hearing screams coming from her grave, according to reports. Shocking footage shows the commotion in the Senhora Santana cemetery in Riachao das Neves, northeast Brazil , as local men took out the heavy coffin and removed the lid. Some people ask to call an ambulance as others touch the woman’s feet and comment on how warm she feels. Married Ms Santos was declared dead by a hospital on January 28 and was buried the next day. People living near to the cemetery alerted her family on February 9 – 11 days after she had been laid to rest – after hearing screams and ban...