Pregnant teenager dies after being buried alive

Footage shows frantic relatives smashing into the concrete tomb of recently buried Neysi Perez, 16, after they said they heard her screaming from inside.

Her family claims the glass portion on the top of her coffin was smashed, and the teen’s fingertips were bruised.

It is thought that Ms Perez, who was three months pregnant, fell unconscious after waking in the middle of the night to use the outside toilet at her home in La Entrada, western Honduras.

Doctors believe that Ms Perez may have suffered a severe panic attack which temporarily stopped her heart – causing her to wake up inside the coffin. The teen began foaming at the mouth, leading her religious parents to believe she was “possessed”, according to Primer Impacto.

She was then buried in her wedding dress, but the tragic story didn’t end there.

A teenage girl in Honduras had mistakenly been buried alive and apparently woke up in her coffin, only to die before she was freed.

Mr Gozales told local TV news Primer Impacto: “As I put my hand on her grave I could hear noises inside”.

A pregnant teenager was smashed out of her concrete tomb after seemingly screaming for help and clawing at her coffin, but could not be resuscitated. “I couldn’t believe it. I was ecstatic, full of hope”.

A cemetery worker also said he heard screams coming from inside the coffin. “I never imagined that there was someone alive in there”. Family members say that she was still warm, and that rigor mortis had not yet set in.

But although medics tried to revive her, all the tests they carried out showed that she was clinically dead. Sufferers experience an abrupt temporary loss of voluntary muscle function, typically triggered by overwhelming feelings of stress or fear.

The teen allegedly had scratches on her forehead and bruises on her fingers most likely from her desperate attempt to get out of the casket.

“The doctors declared her dead but everybody else around me kept telling me she wasn’t”.

Maria Gutierrez, Perez’s mother, believed her daughter was buried alive, and blamed doctors for being too quick in signing a death certificate. “We were all so happy”.

Medics attempted to revive her but she was later declared dead.