By Associated Press - Friday, September 20, 2019

MULVANE, Kan. (AP) - Authorities say a 39-year-old man has died after becoming trapped in a grain truck in southern Kansas.

WIBW reports that Sedgwick County deputies say the man was in the back of tractor-trailer that hauls grain and somehow became trapped.

Crews were called to a grain bin near Mulvane Friday afternoon, after reports that a man was not breathing. He was dead at the scene.

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Mulvane is about 15 miles (24 kilometers) south of Wichita.

The man’s name was not released.

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Information from: WIBW-TV.

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