28 December,2010 07:39 AM IST | | Agencies
First she died, then she didn't. Now, sadly, she has, again.
As 88-year-old Maria das Dores da Conceicao's body was being readied for burial, funeral parlour staff noticed her twitch.
And though hospital doctors in Ipatinga, Brazil, signed her death certificate citing clogged arteries and hypertension, they have ashamedly admitted Conceicao was very much alive.
But just a day after being rushed back to an intensive care ward, still in her coffin, she has died, again.
Doctors gave her emergency treatment while still in her coffin at the same time as her funeral was due to be held on Christmas Day.
Brazilian police are investigating the case to determine whether a medical error at the hospital led to Conceicao's death.
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The Mayor said officials were investigating in order to clarify the details to the shocked family.
