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Falling coconut kills Colombian man

Updated on: 28 August,2010 09:22 AM IST  | 
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A man died after a falling coconut hit him on the head while he was relaxing in the shade of a coconut palm in the Colombian town of Melgar.

Falling coconut kills Colombian man

A man died after a falling coconut hit him on the head while he was relaxing in the shade of a coconut palm in the Colombian town of Melgar.


Jose Abelino Ramirez, 69, was resting in a rocking chair on Thursday, as he did every afternoon, when a coconut fell from a 12-metre-tall palm tree outside his home.



The autopsy found that Ramirez suffered injuries to the skull and brain that caused his death.


"A neighbor saw the coconut fall and immediately called us to help. We managed to get him to the hospital but unfortunately he died," said Jose Norberto Jimenez, president of the Community Action Board of Melgar's Icacal neighborhood.

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