New Delhi, March 11 -- A family in Uttar Pradesh experienced an astonishing turn of events after a 50-year-old woman, believed to be brain-dead, suddenly showed signs of life during an ambulance journey home.

Vineeta Shukla had been undergoing treatment at a hospital in Bareilly after collapsing at home on 22 February. According to her family, doctors later told them that there was "no hope of survival". Accepting the grim prognosis, her husband Kuldeep Kumar Shukla decided to take her back home on 24 February, the Times of India reported.

During the journey along the Bareilly-Haridwar stretch of National Highway 74, something unexpected happened.

"I told my family to prepare for her last rites. She was not breathing, there was only a ...