[NYPOST] An Ecuadorian woman who seemingly rose from the dead when she began knocking on the inside of her coffin at her own funeral — has been declared dead again seven days later.
Bella Montoya, 76, was confirmed dead Friday evening after spending about a week in intensive care following her cryptic awakening, her family and the country’s health ministry confirmed.
"This time my mother really did die. My life will not be the same," her son Gilbert Barbera said, according to a local newspaper article translated by the BBC.
The retired nurse died from an ischemic stroke while she was being watched under "permanent surveillance" in the ICU, the ministry said in a statement.
Hospital workers had originally pronounced Montoya dead on June 9 after she reportedly suffered cardiorespiratory arrest.
She spent about five hours inside a coffin and woke up in the middle of her wake — shocking loved ones gathered in the city of Babahoyo to mourn her death.
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