In tales of the bizarre: A two-year-old Brazilian boy, who was declared dead, sat up in his coffin and asked for water before laying back down again lifeless. Kelvin Santos stopped breathing during treatment for pneumonia at a hospital in Brazil.

The boy was declared dead at 7.40 pm and his body was handed over to his family in a plastic bag. The child's devastated family took him home where grieving relatives held a wake throughout the night as the boy's body laid in an open coffin.

But just an hour before his funeral was to take place on Saturday, the boy apparently sat up in his coffin and said asked his father for water.  "Daddy, can I have some water,' the child said.

"Everybody started to scream, we couldn't believe our eyes. Then we thought a miracle had taken place and our boy had come back to life,' the boy's father, Antonio Santos said.

"Then Kelvin just laid back down, the way he was. We couldn't wake him. He was dead again..' Santos rushed his son back to the hospital, where the doctors reexamined the boy and confirmed that he had no signs of life.