The Sunday Mail
A funeral in Peru was dramatically interrupted after ‘knocking’ was heard from within a coffin.
The family of Rosa Isabel Cespedes Callaca had gathered in the city of Lambayeque to pay their final respects on April 26.
Rosa had been involved in a serious crash on the region’s Chiclayo-Picsi road.
The accident claimed the life of her brother-in-law and left her nephews with serious injuries.
She had been pronounced ‘dead’ following the horrific crash, and later loaded into a coffin ahead of her funeral.
But when her relatives hoisted the wooden structure onto their shoulders, they began to hear strange sounds.
They lowered the coffin and opened the lid to find a weak, but very much alive, Rosa peering up at them.
Cemetery caretaker Juan Segundo Cajo said:
“(She) opened her eyes and was sweating. I immediately went to my office and called the police.”
Shocked relatives rushed Rosa, still in her coffin, to the Referential Hospital Ferrenafe in Lambayeque.
Once there, Rosa was found to have weak signs of life and was hooked up to a life-support machine by medics.
But her condition deteriorated and she tragically died just a few hours later.
Her family, who had to say their farewells twice, are now demanding answers.
They have expressed outrage at healthcare bosses at the fact she was declared dead ‘in the first place’.
An unnamed aunt told local media in Lambayeque:
“We want to know why my niece reacted yesterday, when we were taking her to be buried.
“We have the videos in which she pushes and touches the coffin.”
Rosa’s family suspects she may have been in a coma following the crash, which could explain why she was pronounced dead the first time around.
Police in Peru are now working to investigate just what happened at the Lambayeque Regional Hospital − where she was first treated − which led to her death.
Rosa’s three nephews, who were injured in the same crash as she, are said to be recovering in hospital but still in serious condition.
Toddler takes mother’s car for a joy ride
A four-year-old boy in the Netherlands took his mother’s car for a drive before crashing into two parked cars.
Police in the central city of Utrecht were alerted when residents spotted a youngster walking in the street dressed only in pyjamas and bare feet.
“We immediately responded, as bystanders were worried that the boy was suffering from hypothermia,” police wrote on Instagram.
As they arrived, officers received a second report of a car accident close-by involving three cars.
The driver suspected of causing the accident was missing.
That car was registered to the boy’s mother, they said.
Police phoned the mum “and when she spoke to her son, he made noises resembling a car and used gestures showing turning a steering wheel,” police said.
“We then realised that the child may have been the driver.”
After a hot chocolate at the police station and some comfort from a teddy bear, the boy was reunited with his mum.
They went with police to the crash scene together, where the boy took the keys, got inside and started the vehicle − and pressed down on the gas pedal” police said.
Authorities said the boy had woken up when his dad went to work and taken his mum’s car keys “to go for a drive”.
The mother told police she had “quite a resourceful child”, while police warned the parents to hide their car keys in future.
Finally, a baby at 83!
Like Abraham in the Bible, an 83-year-old Ugandan man, Mzee Yosia Mwesigye, has rejoiced as he became father for the first time after he got married decades ago.
He welcomed his first child with a new woman after his first wife passed away at the age of 79 without bearing any child.
Mzee said he waited for 57 years with his late wife, adding that doctors said she was fertile but he has no regrets that she was not able to take in.
According to Ugandan press sources, the Octogenarian married the love of his life, Jane Tukamuhabwa (now deceased) on April 25, 1962, while he was only 23 years old.
He remained faithful and stuck with her through the trying times, hoping that one day they would have a child, sadly his wife was diagnosed with cervical cancer in 2005, and she died in 2018.
“We did everything together but it was so unfortunate that she passed on without giving birth,” he said.
Years later, Mzee found love again when he was 79 years-old after his sister brought a woman to visit him at home and she later became his new wife.
His 29-year-old wife became pregnant after two years of marriage and on March 23, 2022, health workers at North-Kigezi Health IV Rugarama delivered a baby boy.
“I am so happy that God has blessed me with a child at my old age. I never thought of getting one but I kept on praying and finally, God answered my prayers and now I am a father.
“Dying without a child is such a painful thing. In our African culture, one is only remembered when they leave a child on earth,” the elderly man said.
Mzee’s story is similar to that of the biblical Abraham who got his firstborn son Issac at the age of 100 from his 90-year-old wife, Sarah.
Couple divorces three minutes after exchanging vows
A couple in Kuwait reportedly got divorced after just three minutes , in what is believed to be the shortest marriage on record.
The couple had not even left the courthouse where their nuptials had taken place when the woman tripped over and fell.
Instead of helping her up, her new knight in shining armour called her “stupid”, so she marched straight back and demanded a divorce from the judge who had just married them.
Local media reported that this was the fastest divorce in the history of the country and, likely, the world.
There has been some speculation, however, that this may not be all as it seems.
In Kuwait, the divorce rate has skyrocketed in recent years, since the government began offering financial incentives to newlywed couples –so many people are getting married for the benefits and then divorcing, better off.
However, one wonders if the couple are very fast at typing and managed to apply for their new financial gains in the 180 seconds they were in wedded bliss. –Wires
