The coffin was heavy and as a result, the planks broke and the coffin fell open in the grave. The body of the dead person ...

Without oxygen to keep them alive, the cells self-destruct, spilling all that fluid onto the coffin floor ... butt to a soap-like substance called grave wax. On the other hand, drier conditions ...

He was going to be laid-to-rest in a gold coffin and his family were so concerned about grave robbers and looters, they made the decision to encase the coffin in concrete before he was buried.

The former president lay in an open coffin, flanked by a guard ... government departments and foreign embassies. When the coffin was lowered into the grave, a military band played the Russian ...

The coffin was found several metres underground with its lid slid open, which indicates it was ... said she hoped the grave robbers "have left the things that were of small value to them but ...