Man found dead inside dinosaur statue in Spain

A man in his forties died after being trapped inside a dinosaur statue in Santa Coloma de Gramanet, a town near Barcelona, ​​the Catalan police announced on Tuesday.

The causes are unknown who led to this person to introduce inside the decorative stegosaurus tall, which he could not get out of, said a spokeswoman for Mossos d’Esquadra, the Catalan police.

“Everything points to accidental death, ”the spokesperson explained., who said that after investigating the facts police found “no evidence of criminality.”

Authorities received advice on Saturday. “We went there and we saw that inside the dinosaur there was a dead person“, detailed the spokesperson.

According to the Catalan press, a father and son, who were playing in the area, discovered that there was a body inside the Jurassic statue, a decorative element of some neighboring cinemas already closed, police have alerted.

Firefighters they had to cut off one of the legs of the sculpture, made of a metal structure covered with papier-mâché, where the body had been glued upside down, so that it could be removed.

Police sources quoted by the press indicated that the assumptions made are that the man entered the dinosaur to sleep there or tried to retrieve an objectLike a cell phone, dropped and stuck inside.

The dinosaur, what sometimes it was used by homeless people to spend the nightHe had a plate on his stomach that could move and through which the man could enter.

Agencia AFP