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A man was tragically crushed to death after a bin he had climbed into was emptied into a lorry.

Vitalij Maceljuch, 36, was thought likely to have fallen asleep in the bin which he climbed into near a Wren store in Chester in the middle of the night.

The Czech national, who was born in Ukraine, was not spotted in the bin despite it being checked by refuse staff.

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This included shaking it on its forks - but the contents, including Vitalij, were emptied into the Biffa lorry and crushed, The Mirror reports.

Police were called when staff found his body on a conveyor belt at a waste management site in Flintshire in May last year.

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