A Woman Who’s Supposed to Be Dead Appeared at Her Own Funeral, Alive and Kicking

With eight adorable children, a loving husband and a stable job, one woman from Burundi, Africa, can say that she is living the life she has always dreamed of. Though she had experienced a lot of problems and troubles in the past, those days were gone. Noella but left Burndy, her native country and flew all the way to Australia and found a new home and a new life. Her future was sparkling bright. She planned to spend the rest of her days with her husband, strolling on Australia’s pristine beaches.

Once her kids grow up, gone are the days where she needed to scrape and beg for food. Her husband was a good provider and her children were all loving and supportive. However, when she returned to her native land for a very important reason, she had no idea that everything in her life was about to change.

In 2004, Noelo Rakundo left her native home in Burundi to search for a brighter future in Australia. Her first husband had died and left her with five children. With big dreams for her kids, the widow mustered all of her courage and decided to take her luck in a foreign land. It seemed that Noella did the right thing. Soon enough, she found a new job and a nice place to settle with the help of a resettlement agency.

The Australians were friendly and she was offered all the help she could get. Her kids didn’t have trouble adjusting to their new home. Noella was always thankful of the blessings in her life, especially when a big one came again. Still, depending on the social worker who helped her and her family to build a new life in Australia, noela often visited the agency. It was there where she met Balanga Kalala, a recent refugee from Congo.

Since Kalala already knew how to speak English, he was often asked by the social worker to translate for Noella. At that time, she only knew Swahili. During those encounters, the two fell in love. Noella was a widow with five kids, and Kalala was a widower. She soon learned that he had fled to Australia after a rebel army attacked and ransacked their small village in Congo.

In that unfortunate incident, his wife and young son were killed. With no reason left to stay, he decided to start a new life in a foreign land as well. Noella had no plans of getting married again. She wanted to dedicate her life to raising her children. However, when she met Kalala, everything had changed.

He was sweet and caring, and he always made her laugh. Moreover, he completely accepted her situation. In a short period of time, Noella fell head over heels with Kalala needless to say, the two decided to live together. They moved into their Melbourne suburb of Kings Park. Kalala treated the children as his own.

In the years that followed, she bore him three more children. However, she also discovered more of her second husband’s personality. Noella had nothing to say to her husband when it comes to providing the needs of the family. Since he came as a refugee to Australia in 2004, he worked hard and found steady employment. Soon enough, he worked in a seafood processing factory first before finding a better job as a forklift operator in a warehouse.

However, while living together under one roof, noella discovered the violent side of her husband. When he was tired, he would often shout and get mad at small things. There were times when he would physically hurt her. However, after the rage, he would come to her like a tamed sheep and will cry for forgiveness. As a wife and a mother, she would often disregard the incident and instead learn to accept the situation.

After all, he was her husband and she loved him. Back in Burundi, Noella was raised by her stepmother. Although she was thousands of miles from home, she makes it a point to send her regards to her relatives in Africa. Thanks to technology, she was always updated on what’s happening back there. However, one day the news that arrived from home was not good.

Her stepmother had sadly succumbed to her sickness. Of course, she needed to go home to Burundi to pay her last respect. Unfortunately, her husband couldn’t accompany her due to work responsibilities. From Melbourne, Australia, Noella traveled 7500 miles to reach Burundi. She needed to get some things done and of course, to attend the funeral.

It would be the last time she would see the amazing woman who raised her her husband. Kalala kept on checking on her through phone calls. Since her home in Burundi was small, noella decided to check in to Hotel Boughambora. She was feeling stressed, sad and exhausted and missed her husband and children as well. After the funeral service, she went back to her hotel room to get some rest.

Just in time, her phone rang. The call was from her husband. She answered it right away and instantly detected the sound of concern on Kalala’s voice. She was feeling so lonely and his call was one of the things she needed. According to her husband, he was trying to get to her all day.

He asked how she was doing and she replied she was going to go to bed to get some rest from the hard day she had. Instead of saying goodnight, Kalala advised her to take a dose of fresh air outside. Noella felt that he was so worried about her, so she decided to follow his suggestion. She had no idea that it was the beginning of something she never thought could happen to her. Noelle was only a few steps out of the hotel compound when she noticed a man approaching her.

With so little time to react she just realized that a gun was pointing to her. The stranger told her something that kept her from screaming. He said, don’t scream. If you start screaming, I will shoot you. They’re going to catch me, but you will already be dead.

Although she felt her heart would burst in fear she decided it would be wiser to do what she’s been told. The assaulter motioned Noella towards a car parked on the side of the road. There were three guys. One was the driver and the other two were holding guns. Trying to appear calm as she could be she was forced to sit between two men before the car went.

She was blindfolded. According to her speculation, the car ran for 40 minutes. No one was speaking while they were traveling. When the car stopped, she was shoved outside and she was pushed inside an empty building. Noella was then tied to a chair, still holding her tongue.

Noella heard one of the kidnappers make a call to alert the boss. Then they turned to her and asked her absurd questions. The questions were direct. What did you do to this man? Why has this man asked us to kill you?

For Noella, nothing made sense. She only answered which man? She couldn’t remember anyone whom she had trouble with. As far as she knows, she didn’t have any problem with anybody. However, when the man answered her question it felt like he dropped a bomb.

The kidnapper’s answer was firm. He said, Your husband. Without a doubt. She screamed and it was impossible. Kalala would never do that.

She even accused them of lying. And then she was slapped. The leader of the group told her how stupid she was. To further prove his point, he called the man who had paid them to kill her. Noella’s mind was spinning all along.

She can only wish it was not real. It was not happening. When the call was connected the leader of the kidnappers triumphantly announced that they already held Noella as captive. The phone was put on a loudspeaker so that she could hear the man on the other line. Then the truth stabbed her like a knife killer.

The same voice that consoled her an hour earlier sounded like hell to her ears. The man whom she’d given eleven years of her life. The same man who was the father of her children. She never thought he would be able to condemn her to her death. When the kidnappers discussed how they would kill her and dispose of her body it already tasted like death.

She passed out. As the leader of the kidnappers ended the call, noella was coming around. She knew that her situation was hopeless and nothing could save her anymore. As she was preparing her mind to accept her unfortunate faith she noticed the kidnappers looked at her intently. We’re not going to kill you.

We don’t kill women and children. Upon hearing this, a little surge of hope rose. The switch was mind boggling. She didn’t even know how to react. Then the leader asked her why she hadn’t noticed in the past that something was wrong.

It was January, and the order to kill her was planned in November of last year. Noela tried to remember what she had done to her loving husband. Try as she might, she couldn’t remember anything. Nor did she sense that it will go as far as this. Noela’s life might be in danger.

However, she couldn’t believe that there was hope. After all, the hired assassins Kalala paid were men of principals. They do not believe in killing women and children. In that moment, she realized that God indeed loves her after all. Noella spent the next two days in the abandoned building.

During this time, the kidnappers told her husband that she was already dead. They also took the opportunity to extort more money from Kalala. Her husband willingly shipped the money back in the hotel where she stayed. Noella’s brother was fearful of her disappearance. She never told him when she was going to fly back home to Melbourne.

Moreover, her things were still in the room. Suspecting that something bad had happened to her, her brother reached out to Kalala. According to her brother, he asked Kalala for $545 to pay the police to open an investigation. The husband instantly wired the money and even expressed how bothered he was. However, his shows were not close to being over.

After two days of being held captive, the assassins finally told her what she was praying to hear. The gang leader, however, had a piece of advice and warning for her. He said that she was extremely lucky. They are murderers with principles, but not everyone is the same. According to him, Kalala is very serious.

He wants her dead. They didn’t even know if there were other killers on whom her husband had ordered her murder. Noella was given 80 hours to leave the country. Before leaving her on the side of the road, the leader handed her a memory card. It was a piece of evidence.