Man’s body found inside dinosaur

The body of a missing man has been found inside a dinosaur statue in Barcelona, Spain.

The 39-year-old man’s body was discovered in a papier-mâché stegosaurus statue outside the Cubic Building in Santa Coloma de Gramenet after police said a father and son had noticed a smell coming from it, the BBC reported.

The father saw the body through a crack in the stegosaurus’ hollow leg and alerted the authorities.

A spokesperson for the regional police force told the Guardian they believe it was an accidental death and no violence was suspected.

The man had been reported missing just hours before his body was discovered.

According to a local media report, the man was reportedly trying to retrieve his cellphone that dropped inside the statue when he fell inside and was trapped upside down.

Firefighters pried open the dinosaur leg to retrieve the body after three teams were called to the scene.

Police are awaiting the results from his autopsy to determine how he died, and the statue has since been removed.

A spokesperson for the Mossos d’Esquadra, the local police, said: “It’s an accidental death; there was no violence. It looks as though he was trying to retrieve a mobile phone, which he had dropped.”

The statue, which was used to promote an old cinema, has been removed from its original location.

Boy (7) swims a mile to save dad, sister

A seven-year-old boy saved his father and younger sister by swimming a mile (1,6 kilometres) to get help after a boating accident.

Chase Poust and his four-year-old sister, Abigail, were swimming alongside their father’s anchored boat on the St Johns River in Jacksonville, Florida, on Friday night.

But, as the two children enjoyed their time in the water, Abigail lost hold of the boat when they were caught in a strong current.

“The current was so strong that my sister — she usually hangs out at the back of the boat — and she let go. So, I let go of the boat and grabbed her, and then, I was stuck,” Chase said.

“I felt really scared,” he added.

Steven Proust, their father, jumped into the water to save them and told Chase to swim to shore as he tried to retrieve Abigail, who was being carried along with the current while wearing a floatation device.

“I told them both I loved them because I wasn’t sure what’s going to happen. I tried to stick with her as long as I could,” Steven recalled.

“I wore myself out, and she drifted away from me.”

Chase then began the long, one-mile swim back to land, switching between floating on his back and doggie paddling. The journey, he said, lasted an hour.

Once he reached shore, Chase said he ran to the nearest home he could find and knocked on their door.

Florida Fish and Wildlife — who were helped by Jacksonville Fire and Rescue Department and the Jacksonville sheriff’s office — eventually spotted Steven and Abigail after an hour-long search.

Chase and Steven were not required to wear a life vest. Only children ages six and under must wear one for a vessel 26-feet long (7,9 metres) or shorter.

“We are here. By the grace of God, we are here,” he said. “Little man … made it to shore and got help, and that’s what saved our lives.”

When asked how he became such a skilled swimmer, Chase was honest: “I have no idea.”

Woman claims she gave birth to 10 babies at once

A South African woman claims to have given birth to a Guinness World record-breaking 10 babies — but the government cannot find her, or records of the birth.

South African media outlet IOL broke the story, exclusively reporting the expecting couple — Gosiame Thamara Sithole and her husband Teboho Tsotetsi — had successfully delivered seven boys and three girls.

The 37-year-old retail manager is already a mother to two twins, and told IOL that her pregnancy happened naturally, without the help of any fertility treatments.

Tsotetsi reportedly rang IOL from the unnamed hospital Sithole had given birth in, to share their amazing news.

“It’s seven boys and three girls. She was seven months and seven days pregnant. I am happy. I am emotional,” the father told the local news outlet.

Sithole had previously told IOL she was expecting six children, before a scan showed two others “in the wrong tube”.

“The doctors did further scans and they found the children were in the wrong tube.

“That was sorted and I have been okay since then. I can’t wait for my children,” she told IOL.

Since the South African media outlet broke the story, the government has been trying to track down the couple in order to assist them.

The Citizen, another local media outlet, reported South Africa’s communication and information system director-general Phumla Williams had been “unable to verify the authenticity of this birth at our facilities”.

“We need to verify this story and provide assistance where needed,” Williams said.

Williams also posted on her Twitter about the missing babies.

“We have spent a better part of today tracing the story of IOL of a woman having given birth to 10 babies! IOL can you please help the public where this birth happened!” she wrote.

If the South African government is able to verify the babies’ existence, Sithole will hold the record for the most babies delivered at one time and survive.

This was previously held by Malian national Halima Cissé, who gave birth to nine children in Morocco in May. — Wires .