'Dead' man found 'wiggling' in body bag by grieving brother hours before funeral

A GRIEVING brother was shocked to discover his "deceased" sibling "wiggling" inside a sealed body bag in a hospital's morgue, just hours before his funeral was due to start.

Valdelucio Goncalves, 54 - who was pronounced dead by medical staff the previous evening - had had his feet tied and nose and ears stuffed with cotton wool, before being wheeled into the hospital morgue in a body bag. It was only the next morning, when Valdelucio's brother Walterio went to dress the body in preparation for his funeral, that the nightmarish blunder was finally reported.

Walterio explained: "We had already made all the arrangements for my brother's funeral. All I needed to do was put some new clothes on him, so he'd be ready for the undertaker to come and collect him. "Workers at the morgue let me in, and showed me where he was lying, in a zipped-up body bag. But as I got closer I could see it wriggling"...

[link to www.express.co.uk]