16 year old girl in Honduras died from being mistakenly entombed alive

Startling footage shows grieving family members smashing their way into the tomb and wrenching open the wooden casket, after claiming to have heard 16-year-old Neysi Perez inside.

Relatives claimed they then found the glass viewing window on her coffin had been smashed and the tips of her fingers covered in bruises.

But despite efforts to revive her medics found no signs of life and she was later returned to the cemetery and reburied in the same mausoleum.

Ms Perez, who was three months pregnant, reportedly fell unconscious after waking up in the night to use the outside toilet at her home in La Entrada, western Honduras.

It was believed she may have collapsed in an apparent panic attack after hearing a burst of gunfire.

But when the teenager started foaming at the mouth her religious parents called the local priest believing she had become possessed by an evil spirit.

Relatives told how the priest tried to exorcise her, but she later became lifeless and was rushed to hospital, where three hours later doctors declared her dead.

Ms Perez's mother Maria Gutierrez firmly believes her daughter was buried alive and blames medics for being too quick to sign her death certificate.