47-stone man dies as firemen try to take him to hospital in Seville
A 25-YEAR-OLD man weighing 47 stone died as firemen tried to get him out of his house using a crane after he fell ill.
A 47 stone man died in Seville as firemen tried to get him out of his house to the hospital
Paramedics called for help after realising they needed heavy lifting machinery to get him to hospital.
The narrow corridors in the block of flats where he lived in San Juan de Aznalfarache near Seville made it impossible to move him any other way.
The unnamed Spaniard, who suffered from morbid obesity, died around a couple of hours after the alert was first sounded on Tuesday morning.
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The narrow corridors in the block of flats in San Juan de Aznalfarache made it hard to move him
It took firemen another two hours to remove his body via his balcony.
Town hall chiefs later agreed to pay the funeral of the young man, who was buried yesterday afternoon after it emerged his family were poverty stricken and had no way of paying themselves
It is understood he died of natural causes linked to his obesity.
Local sources said the failed rescue attempt was "very difficult" and stressful.
The case has been described as the first of its kind in the province of Seville.
In 2004 a man aged 57 weighing 21 stone died after a stomach reduction op at a hospital in the southern Spanish city.