Swedish Man Dies In Savage Lawn Mower Accident
General Sources Thursday 21st July, 2011
A man in his mid-forties died following a lawn mowing accident early on Wednesday morning in Kungsbacka, in southern Sweden. "We think he was mowing the grass in what turned out to be a too steep incline," said Stefan Dalhielm of the local police to newspaper Hallands Nyheter. The man, who fell with the machine, went under the mower and was savag...
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