Yikes. The body of a 39-year-old man was found inside a dinosaur statue in Spain. The body was found by a father and son who noticed a smell coming from the papier-mâché figure in Santa Coloma de Gramenet, a suburb of Barcelona. The corpse was in the dinosaur’s hollow leg. The police are now investigating the circumstances behind the tragic incident:
Three fire brigade teams were called to scene after the body was discovered, and firefighters cut open the dinosaur leg to retrieve it.
Local media report the man - who has not been named - was trying to retrieve a mobile phone he dropped inside the statue. He then fell inside the decorative figure and was left trapped upside down, unable to call for help.
Police have not confirmed how the man ended up inside the dinosaur, and are awaiting the results of his autopsy to find out how he died.
The decorative statue has been removed from its place outside the city's Cubic Building, where it had been used to advertise an old cinema.
Image via BBC
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Dinosaurs are dangerous.
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