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Karlshuld (dpa / lby) - After being spilled by several tons of grain, a farmer in Upper Bavaria succumbed to his life-threatening injuries.

According to the police, the 64-year-old died on Friday morning in a hospital the evening before.

The farmer was seriously injured on Thursday morning in Karlshuld (district of Neuburg-Schrobenhausen) while trying to load grain from a storage facility for transport together with the farm owner.

A side wall of the granary broke while working and the 64-year-old was buried under several tons of grain and seriously injured.

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