Shockwaves are reverberating across Yorùbáland and the global Yorùbá diaspora following the sudden death of the Baba Ọba (King’s Father) of the famed Oyotunji African Village in South Carolina, USA. The late Baba Ọba, Lukman Arohunfale, a revered socialite and traditionalist, passed away under circumstances already sparking fierce controversy. His death comes just days after he publicly accused the newly installed Alaafin of Oyo, His Imperial Majesty Oba Akeem Adéyẹmọ Owoade, of allegedly ordering his courtiers to beat him mercilessly during a recent courtesy visit to the Oyo palace in Nigeria. In a widely circulated voice recording, the deceased recounted how what was meant to be a simple homage turned violent. Although the Baba Ọba had reportedly battled ill health in the past year, growing insinuations suggest that the alleged physical assault may have aggravated his condition, ultimately leading to his untimely death. The palace in Oyo recently denied that s...
Cemetery workers claim they heard a woman banging and shouting an hour after being buried.
Nightmare: The woman was reportedly buried alive in a coffin
Nightmare: The woman was reportedly buried alive in a coffin
Cemetery
workers raced to a newly-dug grave after they heard banging and muffled
shouting an hour after a 45-year-old woman was buried.
As
they grabbed tools and anything they could find, they rushed to dig the
grave up again after the woman woke up to find herself buried alive in a
coffin.
But
tragically, the un-named woman died before her would-be rescuers could
reach her inside the plot at a cemetery near Greece’s Thessaloniki.
Now police are probing why the woman was pronounced dead by doctors treating her for cancer, only to be found alive.
Her grieving family arranged her funeral at the graveyard in Peraia, a small town 16 miles south of Thessaloniki, Greece’s main city in the north.
Shortly
after the last relatives left the cemetery on Thursday, residents and a
group of children playing outside reportedly heard a female voice
shouting for help from inside the grave.
They called the police, and began digging up the grave to save her but she had suffocated to death inside the coffin, it was reported.
However,
a doctor who was at the scene and examined the woman’s body, said she
had been dead for hours and could not have been revived.
Dr Chrissi Matsikoudi told Greek TV channel MEGA: "I just don’t believe it. We did several tests including one for heart failure on the body.
"It would have been impossible for someone in a state of rigor mortis to have been shouting and hitting the coffin like that.”
A coroner is expected to examine the body.
Meanwhile,
relatives of the dead woman say they are considering filing a complaint
against the doctors responsible for her treatment at the cancer clinic.
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