When they began to lower the coffin into the ground, there was a strange crack, as if a tree had snapped nearby. Several people turned around but didn’t manage to say anything—within a second, flames burst out from under the coffin lid.

The crowd froze. Someone shouted:

— Fire!

The woman in black fainted. The family rushed to the flames, trying to pat out the fire with a jacket. The gravediggers ran to get a fire extinguisher, but everything happened too fast.