Man dies trapped inside a dinosaur statue in Spain
By AFP
26 May 2021 |
8:36 am
A missing man has been found dead inside a large dinosaur statue in a satellite town of Barcelona. The man is thought to have entered the statue through the belly of the dinosaur, where he then fell inside one leg.
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