Spencer Benbolt Jnr, 13, from Port Lincoln on South Australia s west coast, was killed when a skip bin he was sleeping in was emptied by a council worker at 5.20am on Tuesday.
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The 13-year-old boy who was killed when the industrial bin he was sleeping in was emptied into a truck has been named.
Spencer Benbolt was sleeping in the bin in Port Lincoln, Adelaide with two other children when the garbage truck came to empty it in the early hours of Tuesday morning.
One of the other boys, a 12-year-old, managed to escape from the bin and bang on the truck driver s window to alert him to the danger but it was too late.