A woman has remarkably given birth to her baby ten days after her death on the eve of her funeral.
33-year-old Nomveliso Nomasonto Modyi of the Mthayisi village near Mbizana, in the Eastern Cape of South Africa, died suddenly while nine months pregnant.
The mother of five bizarrely gave birth though ten days after her death with staff at the funeral parlour discovering the stillborn child in her coffin.
Shocked to find the body of the child in the coffin, Lindokuhle Funeral parlour owner Fundile Makalana has said that his staff have been left traumatised by the incident.
He told The Daily Dispatch:
When we took the body from the mortuary tray to her coffin we discovered that there was a newly born baby between her legs.
We were so shocked and frightened that we did not even have time to look at the sex of the baby. I have been in the business for more than 20 years and I have never heard of a dead woman giving birth.
Even after birth the stomach area was still bloated.
Following the discovery the mother and her stillborn child were buried together in one big coffin on Saturday.