Man Declared Dead Wakes Up In Body Bag

Workers at a US funeral home say they found a man alive and kicking when they opened a body bag.

Walter Williams, 78, had no pulse and was pronounced dead on Wednesday.

"I stood there and watched them put him in a body bag and zipped it up," Williams' nephew, Eddie Hester, told local station WAPT-TV.

As workers were preparing to embalm Mr Williams at the Porter and Sons Funeral Home in Lexington, Mississippi, he started kicking in the body bag, they said.

Coroner Dexter Howard said it was a "miracle".