{"id":180066,"date":"2023-09-19T20:09:38","date_gmt":"2023-09-19T20:09:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotworldreport.com\/?p=180066"},"modified":"2023-09-19T20:09:38","modified_gmt":"2023-09-19T20:09:38","slug":"weightlifter-killed-when-60kg-metal-bar-fell-on-his-neck-and-suffocated-him-during-home-workout-the-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotworldreport.com\/world-news\/weightlifter-killed-when-60kg-metal-bar-fell-on-his-neck-and-suffocated-him-during-home-workout-the-sun\/","title":{"rendered":"Weightlifter killed when 60kg metal bar fell on his neck and suffocated him during home workout | The Sun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A WEIGHTLIFTER was killed after a heavy metal bar fell on his neck and suffocated him during a home workout.<\/p>\n<p>Veteran lifter Carl Hughes, 61, was found trapped under the 60kg bar after pumping iron in his bedroom.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/heard-carl-hughes-found-dead-846213254.jpg\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/weights-gym-equipment-exercise-workout-846213371.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Carl was training alone with the bar with the 9st 6lb weight when he was trapped in the freak slip.<\/p>\n<p>He was found by neighbour Gill Embleton after she went to check on him in the seaside town.<\/p>\n<p>The neighbour became alarmed when he did not collect his morning paper from the apartment complex.<\/p>\n<p>And she tragically discovered him dead under the weight on his bench.<\/p>\n<h2><span>Read More in UK News<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/2023-manchester-uk-members-public-846109917.jpg\"><\/p>\n<h3>Hurricane Lee aftermath to batter Brits with warnings for rain for 2 days<\/h3>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/greater-manchester-police-said-sadly-846110876.jpg\"><\/p>\n<h3>Pedestrian killed in horror crash on M62 as man arrested<\/h3>\n<p>An inquest opening heard Carl was lying on the weights bench in his bedroom with the barbell on his neck when he was found on September 9.<\/p>\n<p>Pathologist Dr Zain Mehdi gave a provisional cause of death as asphyxia secondary to compression of the neck by a bar.<\/p>\n<p>Samples have been sent for toxicology tests to check on any substances in his body.<\/p>\n<p>John Gittins, senior coroner for North Wales East and Central, adjourned the hearing in Ruthin, to a date to be fixed.<\/p>\n<h2>Most read in The Sun<\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/JB-COMP-BRAND-PUB.jpg\"><\/picture><span>BRAND CLOSURE<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>Brand rushes to close one company and is ditched by partners of two others<\/h3>\n<p><\/span><span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/GM_19_09_FERNE-TM_COMP.jpg\"><\/picture><span>bum deal<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>This Morning in chaos as Ferne McCann&#8217;s baby POOS on Holly Willoughby<\/h3>\n<p><\/span><span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/newspress-collage-24018105-1695121633992.jpg\"><\/picture><span>DATE NIGHT <\/span><\/p>\n<h3>Louise Redknapp in first public appearance with new man &#8211; 6yrs after Jamie split<\/h3>\n<p><\/span><span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/newspress-collage-24012996-1695078508175.jpg\"><\/picture><span>DAD&#8217;S PLEA<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>Russell Brand&#8217;s dad-in-law &#8216;begged his daughter Laura to end it with the star&#8217;<\/h3>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Neighbour at Carl&#x27;s block of flats in Rhos-on-Sea, North Wales, were shocked at hearing of his death.<\/p>\n<p>Albert Kirk said: &quot;I had been away on holiday when it happened. 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