A baby girl was found alive in the coffin she was to be buried in after being pronounced dead.

AOL News reports that the baby's mother, seventeen-year-old Dafne Marisol Hernandez of Mexico, was at a memorial for her baby when she heard noises coming from inside the coffin. Upon opening the casket, Hernandez realized that the baby was alive and crying. The mother discovered the baby was alive just hours before she was to be buried.

Hernandez was only 24 weeks pregnant when her water broke. When she arrived at a hospital, doctors took a blood sample and informed her that they must induce labor or her life would be in jeopardy. The baby was born premature and weighed only 1.3 pounds. Shortly after the baby was born, a doctor said he was unable to find a pulse and pronounced the baby dead. After the death certificate was signed, the baby's body was brought to an ice-cold mortuary where it was held for four hours before being released to the family.

Adolfo Martinez, the director of the hospital in Pachuca, Mexico, stated that he does not understand how the premature baby survived, as premature babies cannot withstand more than a minute of cold, let alone the ice-cold conditions of a morgue. He called the case "very strange and inexplicable." 

Unfortunately, the Associated Press reported that the baby has now died of asphyxia. Hidalgo state attorney general Jose Rodriguez revealed at a press conference that the baby had been in stable condition at a local hospital, but later died.

The doctor who declared the baby dead the first time is under investigation.

Source: AOL News "Mexican baby comes back to life inside coffin" 8/6/10