'Dead' man comes alive in UP village, shocks villagers

Kallu Yadav, a man in his late nineties, was perceived dead by his relatives in Bhaisa village of Varanasi district. But, as they were taking his "body" for cremation, he startled them by asking where are they going.

Villagers took Yadav to be dead as his heart and pulse stopped ticking on Tuesday night. Hours after the "death", as he was put on a bier and was being taken to the nearby river bank, the man regained consciousness.

When told by his relatives that he had "died" and was being taken for cremation, Yadav quipped, "kya mujhe zinda jala doge? (Do you want to burn me alive)".

His shaken but elated relatives brought him back home as the news spread like a wildfire in the surrounding villages.

DEVOTEES THRONG VARANASI TEMPLE TO GET A GLIMPSE OF WEEPING LORD HANUMAN

A large number of devotees thronged a temple in Varanasi on Sunday after rumours that tears rolled down the cheeks of the statue of Lord Hanuman.

The rumours spread like a wildfire and people rushed to the temple in the house of one Nandlal Sharma to take a glimpse of the crying deity.

Sharma said he at first did not believe when his son informed him about it and washed the face of the deity but claimed that tears continued to come out of his eyes.

The devotees later performed a special prayer in the temple to placate the Lord amid superstition that his crying not a good omen.