A SWEDISH SURVIVES FOR 2 MONTHS SNOWED IN A CAR
STOCKHOLM, Sweden - A Swedish man was dug out alive after being snowed in to his car on a forest track for two months with no food, police and local media reported on Saturday.
The 45-year-old from southern Sweden was found on Friday, emaciated and too weak to utter more than a few words.
He was found not far from the city of Umea by snowmobilers who thought they had come across a car wreck until they dug their way to a window and saw movement inside.
The man, who was laying in the back seat in a sleeping bag, said he had been in the car since December 19.
- Ebbe Nyberg, duty officer at the Umea police, said police saw no reason to doubt the man had been stuck in the car for a very long time.
- Umea University Hospital, where the man is recovering, said in a statement he was doing well considering the circumstances.
- Doctors at the hospital said humans would normally be able to survive for about four weeks without food. Besides eating snow, he probably survived by going into a dormant-like state, physician Stefan Branth told Vasterbottens-Kuriren.
Source:Reuters
A MAN FOUND GUILTY FOR BURY ING GRILFRIEND ALIVE
LONDON, U.K. - A jury has found a man who attacked his girlfriend in May with a stun gun and buried her alive in a cardboard box guilty of attempted murder.Marchin Kasprzak, 25, attacked Michelina Lewandowska (right photo)with a Taser at their home, bound her with tape and put her in a cardboard box that he buried in the woods.
Lewandowska said in court she used her engagement ring to cut the tape from her legs and then tore apart the box, which was buried in about 10cm of soil.
She managed to escape and flagged down a passing car that took her home Kasprzak had claimed that he only meant to scare 27-year-old Lewandowska - the mother of his three year old son - and not kill her.
BRAZILIAN BROTHERS BURIED THEIR FATHER ALIVE
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil - Police in Brazil say two brothers are accused of killing their father by knocking him out with sleeping pills and then burying him alive.Antonio Valente Filho is chief of police in Timon, Maranhao state. He tells Globo TV’s G1 website that the brothers, aged 18 and 21, confessed this week to the Dec 29 crime.
- G1 says they told police their father was a violent man who drank too much and didn’t accept their homosexuality. An autopsy confirmed the victim died underground of asphyxiation. The father was an Afro-Brazilian religious leader.
- Valente Filho tells G1 the brothers might also have been seeking control of the religious grounds and congregation.
- A neighbor may also be accused with the brothers in the case. It seems a neighbor helped dig the hole in which the man was buried alive. There may be something else going on here. According to Fox News, investigators say that the killing may have been a religious war of sorts, and the man was killed for that reason. Police are not giving out any more information on this brutal crime.
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