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Door kills thief at India hospital
Healthcare Security Weekly, August 4, 2008
An apparent thief who sneaked into a hospital in India ran out of luck. The man was killed July 27 when a heavy wooden door he had pried open accidently slammed on his neck at the MR Bangur Hospital, reported The Telegraph in Calcutta.
A hospital clerk found the man, who was estimated to be about 35-years-old, with this head stuck between the door and the frame on the third floor of a hospital building, the newspaper reported. When the man did not respond to questions, the clerk moved closer and found he was dead, the newspaper said.
The man was near a passage that led to the hospital’s storerooms. The door swung shut after a pile of furniture collapsed on it. The column of precariously stacked wooden benches, chairs, and iron racks was probably disturbed as he tried to force open the door after breaking the lock. Police are investigating, but the man was not a hospital employee or patient. Investigators said the man climbed a drainpipe to the roof of the building before walking down a staircase to the third floor.
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