Woman Shows Up At Her Own Funeral And Shocks The Husband Who Arranged A Hit On Her

Noela Rukundo is alive today with a shocking story to tell, but if her ex-husband had his way, life would have gone much differently for this strong, courageous, and inspiring African-born woman.

In 2015, Rukundo traveled from her home in Melbourne, Australia to her native Burundi to visit family and attend her step-mother’s funeral, according to ABC. But soon after she arrived, the trip went terribly wrong.

Rukundo was captured at gunpoint while leaving her hotel in Bujumbura. Masked men tied her to chair in a warehouse and told her something she couldn’t believe.

The man she married and had three children with in Australia, Balenga Kalala, had arranged a hit, paying the men to kill her.

A recording of Kalala confirmed Rukundo’s disbelief and she believed her life had come to an end. Rukundo told BBC “I said to myself, I was already dead. Nothing I can do can save me,” but then a miracle happened.

The men told her she had 80 hours to leave their country, that her husband was a fool and they didn’t kill women or children, according to the Huffington Post.

When Rukundo returned to Melbourne, she learned her husband had already planned her funeral, and solicited donations from people to help, so she decided to plot her revenge.

“Surprise! I’m still alive!” Rukundo told her husband, who believed she was dead and thought he saw a ghost.

According to the ABC, Rukundo’s 39-year-old husband was sentenced to nine years in jail for ordering the hit on the woman he shares three kids with.

“I felt like somebody who had risen again,” told BBC. “My situation, my past life? That is gone. I’m starting a new life now.”

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[Featured Image: The Washington Post]