A death row prisoner in Iran is to be hanged for a second time once he ‘becomes well again’ after he survived an initial bungled execution.

The 37-year-old man named as Alireza M was ‘put to death’ in the Islamic regime’s Bojnourd prison last Wednesday for drugs offences.

After 12 minutes, he was certified as dead and taken to the prison morgue.

But when his family went to collect his body the following day, they noticed he was still breathing and rushed him to hospital.

Once officials were told Alireza M had survived, they put him under armed guard at the hospital to await a second execution.

A judiciary official told the state media: ‘The verdict was the death sentence, and it will be carried out once the man gets well again.’

Iran has executed an estimated 560 people this year – including around 200 that have been put to death since new ‘moderate’ president Hassan Rouhani came to power in June.