Police had to be called in to control the situation at Jaiswal Hospital in Howrah.
Family and friends of an eight year old boy went on rampage at a hospital in West Bengal's Howrah, allegedly because the boy briefly came to life after doctors declared him dead in a drowning accident.
Hospital beds, stretchers and wheelchairs flew in the air and a huge police force had to be called in to control the situation.
Tuhin Majumdar apparently drowned while bathing in a pond at Liluah. He was rushed to Jaiswal Hospital in Howrah town but declared brought dead, his body sent to the morgue and then handed over to the family.
However, when the family took the body home for last rites, the boy, his family claims, came to life.
They rushed him back to hospital where he was declared brought dead again.
"How can someone die twice," demanded an angry member of the family, Pradeep Majumdar.
"Doctors just didn't take care the first time he was brought to the hospital."
The family claims if doctors had not been negligent the first time round, the boy may have survived. The hospital should have waited four hours before declaring the patient dead and handing the body back to them, the family is saying. That did not happen.
Doctors and most administrative fled from the hospital during the vandalism.