Corpse 'wakes up' before funeral pyre

An Indian woman narrowly escaped being burned alive after doctors wrongly declared her dead and relatives prepared her funeral pyre.
Grieving family members were about to place 72-year-old Magan Kanwar on the flames yesterday when she suddenly "woke up", The Times of India reported.

Female mourners who were bathing the "corpse" in preparation for the traditional send-off noticed she was breathing and the funeral in Jaipur, northwest India, was immediately halted.Read more: Corpse 'wakes up' before funeral pyre

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Teen jumps into Girlfriend's funeral pyre, kills self

SIRSA: In a shocking incident, a 17-year-old boy allegedly jumped into the funeral pyre of his girlfriend who had committed suicide after her parents refused to accept their relationship.

The incident took place in the Rori village of Sirsa district on Monday. While the girl, Veer Pal Kaur, was a student of Class IX, her boyfriend, Bittu Singh, a native of Malsinghwala village of Punjab, studied in Class XI. The two had been studying in the same school and had been going around for the past couple of years. Read more...................17-yr-old jumps into girlfriend's funeral pyre, kills self

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Man jumps onto funeral pyre, dies

Varanasi: A man, said to be mentally unstable, was charred to death after he jumped onto a funeral pyre in Uttar Pradesh’s Varanasi district, police said.
The incident occurred near the Manikarnika ghat (bank) of the Ganges river in Varanasi, some 250 km from Lucknow. Read More................Man jumps onto funeral pyre, dies

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