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Woman BURIED ALIVE by mistake for 11 days heard screaming from coffin

A WOMAN was mistakenly buried alive and lay conscious in her tomb for 11 days.

Woman found dead in coffin after being buried alive in Brazil

Rosangela Almeida dos Santos, 37, is said to have desperately tried smash her way out of the wooden coffin which had been nailed shut and could be heard screaming and groaning by neighbours.

Neighbours also heard bangs coming from the grave and but she had already died by the time it was finally opened.

But Ms Santos was "still warm" when she was examined and her hands and forehead were all bloody from where she had tried to claw her way out, according to local reports.

Some of the nails in the coffin had been pushed up too.

(Image: Globo G1 )

A video has since emerged showing the commotion in the Senhora Santana cemetery in Riachao das Neves, northeast Brazil, as local men took out the heavy coffin and removed the lid.

Married Mrs Santos was declared dead by a hospital on January 28 and was buried the next day.

People living near to the cemetery alerted her family on February 9 – some 11 days after she had been laid to rest – after hearing screams and bangs coming from inside the tomb.

Ms Santos had been at the Hospital do Oeste in Barreiras, in Brazil's northeastern state of Bahia, for a week after being rushed there by her family who claimed she was suffering from severe fatigue.