Woman who 'died' of cancer wakes up in her grave

Police in northern Greece say they are
investigating reports that a woman woke up to
find herself buried in a coffin, only to die before
being rescued.
Several people visiting the cemetery, near
Thessaloniki, told police they had heard banging
and muffled shouting from inside the woman's
grave, an hour after her funeral on Thursday.
By the time the coffin was dug up, the woman, 45,
was found dead.
She had earlier been declared dead by doctors
treating her for cancer.
Her funeral was held at a cemetery in Peraia, a
small town 22km (16 miles) south of Thessaloniki,
Greece's main city in the north.
'Several tests'
Shortly after the last relatives left the cemetery,
residents and a group of children playing outside
reportedly heard a female voice shouting for help
from inside the grave.
They called the police, and began digging up the
grave to save her but she had suffocated to death
inside the coffin, Greek media reported.
However, a doctor who was at the scene and
examined the woman's body, said she had been
dead for hours and could not have been revived.
"I just don't believe it," Chrissi Matsikoudi told the
Greek television channel MEGA.
"We did several tests including one for heart failure
on the body," she said.
It would have been impossible for "someone in a
state of rigor mortis to have been shouting and
hitting the coffin like that," she added.
A coroner is expected to examine the body.
Meanwhile, relatives of the dead woman say they
are considering filing a complaint against the
doctors responsible for her treatment at the cancer
clinic.