After her condition deteriorated, she was pronounced dead and moved from the mortuary to the funeral parlour in preparation for her burial.

However, staff were reportedly horrified when they discovered the elderly woman had a pulse and even moved her fingers. Paramedics at the Son Valenti funeral parlour in Palma, Majorca confirmed she was alive and rushed her back to the city's Juan March de Bunyola Hospital.

Her current condition remains unknown. An internal inquiry is now underway to determine what led to the erroneous declaration of her death, reports the Mirror.

This incident echoes a similar case in February last year, when morgue workers were left terrified as a woman seemingly returned from the dead, moving inside a body bag. The unnamed patient, who showed signs of severe malnutrition and had no respiratory or brain activity, was declared dead.

But after five hours inside a body bag at the San Juan de Dios General Hospital in Guatemala, she suddenly began to move. Morgue workers were left in shock as they rushed to alert doctors after the woman was found alive, leading to her readmission to the emergency room.

Despite their best efforts to resuscitate her, she showed no vital signs and was declared dead for the second time.

The hospital has offered their heartfelt support to the family of a young woman who passed away during a 'difficult period' they're enduring. The circumstances surrounding the incident remain shrouded in mystery, with no confirmation if it has been subject to an official inquiry.

A hospital spokesman detailed the precarious state of the young woman upon arrival, citing "severe malnutrition" and a history of seizures and cerebral palsy.

They further stated: "After 30 minutes of medical efforts, she was declared deceased and her body was transferred to the morgue as part of established protocol."

In a remarkable incident reminiscent of this, last year in Texas, 16-year-old Sammy Berko suffered cardiac arrest at a rock climbing gym and was initially pronounced dead.

But after two hours of unyielding CPR, he miraculously pulled through, leading to one of his doctors celebrating him as a "literal miracle".

Sammy's mother, Jennifer, recounted the terrifying moment: "He climbed to the top of the wall, rang the bell, as we were told, and then his body went limp, and it looked like he was either playing around or passed out. They weren't quite sure and when they realised he was unresponsive, they lowered him slowly."

Following the dire situation, Sammy's grieving parents were granted a private farewell, already having faced the loss of another child, Frankie, three years prior.

Recounting the emotional moment, Jennifer said: "I started talking to him, just telling him how much I love him and sorry that we didn't know how to save him. Suddenly, as I started praying, my husband said, 'Oh my gosh, he's moving'."

In a startling event from June last year, 76-year-old Bella Montoya Castro was pronounced dead at a hospital in southwest Quito, Ecuador. However, she stirred back to life during her own funeral hours later.

Her son, Gilber Barberan, revealed friends who were laying flowers on the casket heard noises emanating from inside the coffin and realised it was Bella making the sounds.