Primer Impacto Family members scrambled to get to the coffin as they heard screaming

Footage shows grieving family members breaking through the concrete tomb from where Neysi Perez, 16, had been heard "banging and screaming".



Relatives who removed the girl's corpse found that the glass viewing window on her coffin had been smashed, and the tips of her fingers were bruised.



Family members however were too late and the 16-year-old died for the second time despite efforts by desperate relatives to save her. Medics found no signs of life after examining her again and she was returned to the cemetery to be reburied.



Ms Perez, who was three months pregnant, reportedly fell unconscious after waking up in the night to use the outside toilet at her home in La Entrada, western Honduras.



It is believed she may have collapsed in an apparent panic attack after hearing a burst of gunfire in the nearby town.

Primer Impacto The woman was briefly resurrected

But when the teenager started foaming at the mouth her religious parents called the local priest believing she had become possessed by an evil spirit.



Relatives told how the priest tried to exorcise her, but she later became lifeless and was rushed to hospital, where three hours later doctors declared her dead.



Ms Perez was buried in the wedding dress she had recently got married in.



A day after her funeral, her husband Rudy Gonzales was visiting her grave at the La Entrada General Cemetery when he heard banging and muffled screams from inside the concrete tomb, and raised the alarm.





Primer Impacto Family members broke inside the tomb with a sledgehammer

This horrifying footage shows the moment desperate family members broke through the concrete block tomb with a sledgehammer, before bringing out and opening up Ms Perez's coffin to try to revive her.



Mr Gozales told local TV news Primer Impacto: "I was heartbroken because my sweetheart had been taken so suddenly from me. I wanted to be near to her.



"As I put my hand on her grave I could hear noises inside. I heard banging, then I heard her voice. She was screaming for help.



"It had already been a day since we buried her. I couldn't believe it. I was ecstatic, full of hope." Cemetery worker Jesus Villanueva said he had also heard noises coming from the grave.



He said: "I convinced myself that the screams were coming from somewhere else. I never imagined that there was someone alive in there.





Primer Impacto Neysi Perez died twice

"That afternoon the girl's husband came to me begging me to get her out because she was alive. He was hysterical. The family were soon here and started breaking through the tomb, shouting her name." Ms Perez was taken by truck to the nearest hospital in San Pedro Sula, where she was carried in still inside her coffin.



But although medics tried to revive her, all the tests they carried out showed that she was clinically dead.



Doctor Claudia Lopez recalled: "The whole family rushed in, almost breaking the door down, carrying the girl in her casket. I told them to take her out and put her on the bed. Everybody was claiming she was alive so I went through all the necessary procedures.



"We evaluated and tried everything but the girl was dead. They put her back in the coffin and took her away again, back to the cemetery." Doctors believe Ms Perez may have suffered a severe panic attack which could have temporarily stopped her heart activity.







Primer Impacto Family members attempted to revive the teen

Primer Impacto Nelsy's mother spoke of her heartbreak of her daughter's death

Another hypothesis is that the teenager had a cataplexy attack, an abrupt temporary loss of voluntary muscle function typically triggered by a strong emotional stimulus such as stress or fear, during which the victim maintains full conscious awareness.



She may then have died from lack of oxygen after waking up inside the closed coffin.



Her cousin, Carolina Perez, said: "Once we had taken her out of the tomb I put my hand on her body. She was still warm, and I felt a faint heart beat.



"She had scratches on her forehead and bruises on her fingers. It looked like she had tried desperately to get out of the casket and hurt herself.





