A man was killed when his mother’s coffin fell him during a funeral service.
According to Sulawesi police in Indonasia, the man was crushed to death during the unfortunate incident.
Samen Kondorura, 40, died Friday when pallbearers lost their footing while carrying the coffin up a bamboo ladder in the Parinding valley in North Toraja district, local police said.
Reports indicate that the casket fell as the group hoisted it onto a lakkian, an ornately carved tower where the deceased is placed before traditional funeral rites.
“As the mother’s coffin was being raised to the lakkian, suddenly the ladder shifted and collapsed, the coffin fell and hit the victim,” Julianto Sirait, chief commissioner of the Tana Toraja resort police, told AFP.
Footage shows the ladder slip just as the casket enters the tower, sending the men tumbling several meters to the ground where the victim is struck by the coffin.
Kondorura died later in hospital.
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