Published 20:35 IST, May 24th 2021

Spain: Missing man's body found 'inside dinosaur statue,' police calls it accidental death

Police in Catalonia are investigating the death of a 39-year-old man who was first reported missing until his body was found inside a large dinosaur statue.

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Police in Catalonia are investigating death of a 39-year-old man who was first reported missing until his body was found inside a large dinosaur statue as y tried to locate his mobile phone. As per Guardian report, Spanish officers were called to statue of papier-mache stegosaurus in Barcelona suburb of Santa Coloma de Gramenet after a man and his son noticed something inside statue on Saturday afternoon. Following alert by far-son duo, spokesperson for regional police force, Mossos d’Esqura reportedly said that death of man was ‘accidental’ and was not being treated as suspicious.

As per report, she said, “We found body of a man inside leg of this dinosaur statue. It’s an accidental death; re was no violence. This person got inside statue’s leg and got trapped. It looks as though he was trying to retrieve a mobile phone, which he’d dropped. It looks like he entered statue he first and couldn’t get out.”

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spokesperson said that officers h to call firefighters to help cut into statue so that body of man could be retrieved. Mossos d’Esqura also said that authorities are waiting for autopsy results of man and hence, y do not know yet how long 39-year-old was trapped inside statue. However, she ded, “it seems he was re for a couple of days.” Several local media reports said that de man was registered missing by his family a few hours before his body was discovered. 

decorative statue removed

As per local media reports, decorative statue of dinosaur has been removed from its designated place outside city’s Cubis Building. It was originally placed in that position for vertisement of an old cinema. Or reports have also stated that man, who has not been named, was trying to retrieve a mobile phone he h dropped inside statue. 

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However, he n failed inside huge decorative figure. As a result, he was reportedly left trapped upside down and was unable to call for help. As of now, police has not confirmed how 39-year-old man ended up inside statue and are waiting for results of autopsy.

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20:35 IST, May 24th 2021