Ecuadorian Bella Montoya has been officially declared dead less than two weeks after she was placed in her coffin and found breathing four hours later by her horrified family

A 76-year-old woman who shocked her relatives by knocking on her coffin during her funeral earlier this month has died after seven days in intensive care.

Ecuadorian Bella Montoya was placed in her coffin at 2 pm on June 9, but horrified her family, when, four hours later, they opened the coffin to change her clothes and found her gasping for breath.