BAGHDAD A 60-year-old Iraqi man came back to life with a sneeze as family and friends gathered for a funeral a day after his death AFP reported Tuesday. Al-Ittihad said Rahim Najati, a resident of a Baghdad suburb and well-known as a religious man, had died after dinner. But he came back to life the next morning, to the shock of his mourners.

Najati told the gathering he had seen a dream in which three figures appeared to take him to paradise. They later told him they had the wrong man. Iraqi newspapers reported in June that a woman was resuscitated three hours after doctors declared her dead and performed a caesarian operation to save her baby.