Foldaway bed swallows and kills womanThe 73-year-old pensioner from Bobadilla Estacion in Malaga province, southern Spain, bought the bed a few days earlier in anticipation of a visit from relatives at Christmas.
It is thought she was trying out the new piece of furniture when it folded up and trapped her between the mattress and the wall. The alarm was raised when neighbours failed to see her make her usual morning trip to the bakery last Wednesday. Her family was called but they failed to find her at home.
"She didn't answer the phone and when we went round to the house in the morning we could not find her," one of her sons told the local newspaper La Opinion de Malaga. He said the family was puzzled as to her whereabouts. "Her glasses, her rings and her personal alarm were in their usual place and we didn't think to open up the bed to look for her."
It wasn't until later that evening that her daughter-in-law pulled the bed down and found the pensioner trapped between the mattress and the wall. The family is preparing to sue the furniture company that sold the bed claiming it was either faulty or had not been installed correctly. "That thing was a death trap and we demand accountability," said her son.
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