Clothes bank tragedy in Spain's Malaga

A YOUNG man has died after getting trapped in a charity clothes bank in Malaga.

The 22-year-old of Moroccan origin is thought to have suffocated after becoming stuck halfway into the container.

He had apparently stood on a chair before trying to reach through the ‘trap door’ to reach clothing inside.

The clothes bank had been installed by a charity for people to donate used items.

Emergency services called to the scene in the Arroyo de los Angeles district of Malaga, could do nothing to save the victim’s life.

The body has been taken to the Institute of Legal Medicine in Malaga, where a post-mortem examination will be carried out.

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Dilip Kuner

Dilip Kuner is a NCTJ-trained journalist whose first job was on the Folkestone Herald as a trainee in 1988.
He worked up the ladder to be chief reporter and sub editor on the Hastings Observer and later news editor on the Bridlington Free Press.
At the time of the first Gulf War he started working for the Sunday Mirror, covering news stories as diverse as Mick Jagger’s wedding to Jerry Hall (a scoop gleaned at the bar at Heathrow Airport) to massive rent rises at the ‘feudal village’ of Princess Diana’s childhood home of Althorp Park.
In 1994 he decided to move to Spain with his girlfriend (now wife) and brought up three children here.
He initially worked in restaurants with his father, before rejoining the media world in 2013, working in the local press before becoming a copywriter for international firms including Accenture, as well as within a well-known local marketing agency.
He joined the Olive Press as a self-employed journalist during the pandemic lock-down, becoming news editor a few months later.
Since then he has overseen the news desk and production of all six print editions of the Olive Press and had stories published in UK national newspapers and appeared on Sky News.