The supposedly dead grandmother left mourners (not pictured) reeling with shock (Picture: AFP/Getty)

Mourners at a house in China were left shocked after a 101-year-old woman they thought was dead sat up just before she was due to be put into a coffin and spoke to them.

Peng Xiuhua surprised her friends and family when she awoke in Lianjiang, Guangdong province, and asked why her house was so crowded.

She had been declared dead after her two daughters found her lifeless body following a fall in her residence.

The two women in their 70s had bathed their mother and an undertaker had dressed her in preparation for her funeral.


But the memorial was not to take place after the grandmother sat up, just as she was being lowered into a casket.



Peng said: ‘I am a lucky woman.

‘Not only did I get to see how many people care for me, but I also woke up before they took me to the crematorium.’

Lucky indeed.