Canadian officials are investigating a woman’s death after finding her corpse partially inside a clothing donation box, police said.
Cops received reports of a body inside a bin outside an apartment building in Toronto at 1:30 a.m. Tuesday. Authorities cut open the metal box to get the woman out and paramedics administered CPR, but later pronounced her dead at the scene, Global News reported.
Police did not release the woman’s identity, but said she was 35 years old, the Canadian Press reported.
The death appears to be accidental, police told CBC.
This is not the first time someone has died after attempting to climb into a donation bin. The bin’s hatches, designed to keep thieves out, can also trap people climbing inside.
At least seven Canadians have died after getting trapped in bins since 2015, leading some to nickname the boxes “death traps,” the Canadian Press reported last week.
In 2017, a Pennsylvania woman died in a donation bin after breaking both arms when a stepstool she was standing on collapsed in frigid temperatures.
