During the night, the onions absorbed all the oxygen in the closed container, suffocating the worker as he slept, said Brigadier Al Mansouri, adding that the man's blue lips indicated the reason behind the death. Although there was no reason to suspect criminal involvement, the man's body was taken to the forensic evidence laboratory for an autopsy.
Brigadier Al Mansouri highlighted the risk of sleeping in a closed space with plants, as the plants take in oxygen and emit carbon dioxide at night, which in huge quantities can harm or even kill. The worker's colleagues opened the container at around 7am to offload the bags of onions and found the body of their colleague.
S.B. lived in Hor Al Anz, but on Saturday night he was too exhausted to go home, according to his co-workers. He decided to spend the night in the market and sleep in the container. Workers at the Fruit and Vegetable Market were shocked to hear of the worker's death, as it was not common practice to sleep in containers.
3 comments:
Wait a minute -- don't plants absorb carbon dioxide and emit oxygen?
thats what I thought.
Sooz: Just like animals, plants respire all day and all night.
(Leaving out a hell of a lot of stages) They take in oxygen and use it to convert stored sugars into energy, the byproduct of which is CO2. However plants also photosynthesize. When they've got enough light, they take in CO2 to grow and produce oxygen as a waste gas. The amount of oxygen they produce is way more than the amount of it they absorb through respiration so by and large, they take in CO2 and put out O2.
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