ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia–An Ethiopian man who woke up in his coffin during his burial two months ago has died.
According to local media, Hirpha Negero was pronounced dead in November and was placed inside a coffin, where he lay for five hours, but during the funeral villagers heard him knocking from inside the coffin.
Speaking to BBC after his resurrection, Hirpha said: “I heard someone crying. I was suffocating and trying to tear away the shroud. I was so weak, unable to speak out.”
He added: ” I then started calling, Is there anybody around?”
The village undertaker Etana Kena said that people were shocked and ran away and he had had to open the coffin alone.
After the initial shock, the burial ceremony then turned into a celebration.
The undertaker, who is also Mr Hirpha’s uncle, said: “I have buried more than 50 or 60 bodies. I have never anything seen like this before. He seemed to be dead.”
Mr Hirpha said he had had visions when he was unconscious of “a beautiful green place” where a man dressed in white told him to “go back”.
But doctors believe that Hirpha was in a “deep coma”.
His Uncle who is the undertaker buried his nephew for the second time on Thursday, one day after he died.
He said that this time he was certain his nephew was dead because he had witnessed his long sickness.
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