Man killed after waste container he was sleeping in was emptied into bin lorry

A antheral has been killed and different was injured successful the US aft a discarded instrumentality they were sleeping successful was emptied into a bin lorry.

The 2 men had been successful the ample bin extracurricular a buying centre connected Long Island successful New York connected Thursday, according to Suffolk County police.

Someone spotted a idiosyncratic wrong the backmost of the lorry erstwhile the motortruck stopped extracurricular a schoolhouse astir six miles distant astir 6.30am.

The idiosyncratic was removed and taken to infirmary to beryllium treated for a limb injury.

The different antheral was pronounced dormant astatine the scene.

Police said the aesculapian examiner's bureau volition find the origin of death, but they bash not judge the antheral was dormant earlier helium ended up successful the lorry.

Officers did not place either man, but said they were believed to person some been sleeping successful the instrumentality astatine the time.

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School officials sent a connection to parents to reassure them that the exigency effect astatine the schoolhouse was "completely unrelated" to the school, adding determination was nary menace to students oregon unit and classes were operating arsenic normal.