Mourners stunned when "dead" boy, 28, wakes up at his own funeral

Mourners at a funeral in Egypt exchanged cheers to tears when the "death" of the body they buried awake.

Hamdi Hafez al-Nubi, a boy of 28 year-old from Naga al-Simmanm, near Luxor was pronounced dead after suffering a heart attack at work.

His body was prepared for burial when a doctor sent her to sign the death certificate, discovered he was still warm.

Family members were so convinced Mr. al-Nubdi was dead, they had already washed his body, according to Islamic tradition, and were preparing to bury him on Friday night.

After finding it was still warm, the doctor checked her vital signs and discovered that he was still breathing.

She quickly revived al-Nubdi - with his mother, who had fainted when she heard her son was not dead.

Rather than cancel the funeral, mourners took the party into a celebration of Mr. al-Nubdi "resurrection".

This is not the first time someone came "back from the dead" at their own funeral.

Last month, a woman 95 years old Chinese man came out of his own coffin, six days after she was thought to be dead following a fall.

Li Xiufeng was found motionless and not breathing in his bed by a neighbor two weeks after the start and suffered a head wound at his home in Beiliu, Guangxi Province.

When the neighbor who found her could not wake up the pensioner, they feared the worst and thought the old woman had died.

She was placed in a coffin which was kept in his house sealed the Chinese tradition for parents and friends to pay tribute.

But the day before the funeral, the neighbors found an empty coffin, and later discovered the 95-year-old who had been awakened in his kitchen cooking.