No rigor mortis

When the emergency team arrived, they made a discovery that deepened the mystery. The Mirror reports that Kiara still had a pulse and her oxygen saturation level was 84% – “dangerously low” levels that demand “immediate medical attention,” explains the Cleveland Clinic.

Equally shocking was that Kiara’s body showed no signs of rigor mortis, the stiffening of the body that typically occurs 6 to 8 hours after death.

Dead again

The baby was alive again and paramedics rushed her back to the same hospital that had pronounced her dead just 16 hours earlier.

But despite their efforts, Kiara’s heart stopped, and she was declared dead – again.

And the emotional toll on Kiara’s family was unimaginable, according to local media, per the Mirror: “We were devastated already. Then there came a little bit of hope, but then this ended up happening,” the little girl’s dad Cristiano said of the daughter he called “my miracle.”