Ecuadorean Woman Who Revived During Her Wake Is Dead After a Week in Intensive Care at a Hospital

The hospital where the 76-year-old woman was being treated in the city of Babahoyo, Ecuador. Courtesy of Ecuavisa

QUITO, Ecuador—A 76-year-old woman who had been declared dead and surprised her relatives by knocking on her coffin during her wake earlier this month has died after seven days in intensive care, her family said Saturday.

Gilberto Barbera Montoya, the woman’s son, told The Associated Press that doctors at the state hospital where she was rushed after the incident said that she died on Friday evening.