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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Sam Russell

Warning after student dies in freak gym accident while doing calf raises

A general view of weights in a gym - (PA Archive)

A student died in a “tragic accident” involving gym equipment, an inquest has heard.

Mohammed Farraj, a 21-year-old medical student, was using a Smith machine – a weightlifting apparatus with a bar that moves vertically on rails – at the university’s Sportspark gym on the evening of October 16, 2024.

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