Right, the article said it was only 27 inches below ground level.
It does now.
Originally, the article said that the body was found "680m (2,231 feet) below ground level." They later corrected the article to say that the body was found "68cm (27in) below ground level."
I suspect that the author of the article copied from a report that said the body was found "680 millimeters" below ground, wrote down 680 meters instead and then plugged 680 meters into Google to calculate the number of feet.
Newspapers used to hire and pay people called "editors" to read articles before they are published and look for careless errors like that. Now they crowd-source editing by posting beta articles on their websites.