A worker was found dead inside a walk-in freezer at a Brooklyn bakery Thursday morning after getting locked in overnight, police said.
Mahamadou Dansogo, 33, was discovered at 8:40 a.m. by a coworker who opened the Beigel’s Bakery warehouse on Avenue D, near Ditmas Avenue, in East Flatbush, according to cops.
He had no visible trauma to his body, cops said.
A police officer responds after a worker was found dead in a freezer at Beigel’s bakery in Brooklyn. Gregory P. Mango
Mahamadou Dansogo was discovered dead inside the freezer. Gregory P. MangoThe walk-in freezer was described as being like a meat locker, a police source said.
“I’m not sure how long you can survive in one of those,” the source said.
It’s believed he was in the freezer overnight, a law enforcement source said.
He was pronounced dead at the scene.
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