Mourners at a funeral in central Israel were stunned when a cellular phone began ringing from the grave shortly after the burial. The phone, it turned out, belonged to one of the mourners and had apparently fallen into the grave while he helped cover it, the Israeli daily Ma’ariv reported.
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