A 55-year-old man dies crushed by his tractor in Loire-Atlantique

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A 55-year-old man died on Friday evening at a place called La Rouillais, in Marsac-sur-Don, near Guéméné-Penfao, in Loire-Atlantique, firefighters report.

The agricultural vehicle accidentally overturned in a ditch, according to the first elements of the gendarmerie investigation.

The man, a 55-year-old carpenter residing in Marsac-sur-Don, died at the scene of the accident "despite the rapid intervention of the emergency services".

The thesis of discomfort is favored by the gendarmerie, according to

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"The person would have been unbalanced and would have gone under the tractor," said Captain Gilles Maurer, commander of the Châteaubriant gendarmerie company, to the weekly Loire.

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