Police in London say a pop-up urinal has crushed a man to death in the city's theater district.
Firefighters used a winch to free the man after he became trapped under a hydraulic urinal at Cambridge Circus, a busy intersection in the city’s West End.The Metropolitan Police force said the man "is thought to have sustained crush injuries while working on a telescopic urinal."
The force said that "despite the efforts of emergency services," he was pronounced dead at the scene.A police tent is erected in London after a man died after being crushed by a telescopic urinal. The retractable urinals are dotted throughout London’s entertainment districts, stored below ground during the day and raised at night.
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