There was a lot of banging, screaming and shouting from the cemetery. The workers ran to the newly-dug grave one hour after the 45-year-old woman was buried, grabbed whatever tools they could find, and rushed to dig up the grave, frightened of the possibility that she had been buried alive, according to topix.com. But when they opened her grave, she was dead. Before her rescuers could reach her inside, at the cemetery near Greece's Thessaloniki, they found that she had passed away.

Why did the doctors treating her pronounce her dead, wondered the police. Her family had arranged her funeral at the graveyard in Peraia, which was a small town 16 miles south of Thessaloniki, Greece's city in the north. After the relatives left on Thursday, her screaming and shouting began to break out. Nearby residents and a group of children outside heard the female voice shouting. Immediately, they called the police, and workers began to dig up the grave. However, she had been suffocated inside the coffin.

Her doctor, who had been at the scene of her coffin's removal in Peraia, south of Thessaloniki, said that she had been dead for two hours, and could not have "revived." Dr Chrissi Matsikoudi told Greek TV channel MEGA that he just did not believe it. Many tests including one for heart failure would show that it would have been impossible for a patient to have gone into a state of rigour mortis and then begin shouting and hitting the coffin in that manner, according to nydaily.

A coroner has been called, and is expected to examine the body. The relatives too have been called, and confirm that they are thinking of filing a report against the doctors for the odd treatment at the cancer clinic.

While revival from death sounds incredible, it cannot be totally ruled out, as at least six known cases of people coming back from the dead have been reported, according to dailymirror. For instance, in April, 2013, a 95-year-old Chinese woman called Li Xiufeng just climbed out of her "coffin" in a neighbour's house, and started cooking in her kitchen!