Bloody man is found walking down Spanish motorway with a knife in his hand 'after mutilating his genitals in a greenhouse'
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A half-naked man was found walking down a Spanish motorway with a knife in his hand after mutilating his own genitals.
Witnesses spotted the man wearing only his blood-soaked underwear and carrying a rucksack on his back just before 12pm on Saturday in El Ejido, near Almeria.
The man was assisted by police and paramedics before being rushed to the nearby Poniente Hospital, where his condition was described as serious on Monday.
One local report said the man had mutilated his genitals in a greenhouse before he set off down the motorway in the rain, carrying the weapon he used to injure himself.
Detectives believe he self-harmed during a psychotic episode.
He is understood to be well-known to police, with around 30 previous arrests for various offences.
The greenhouses in El Ejido form the world's largest concentration of plastic-covered hothouses, sprawling across around 40,000 hectares of the Campo de Dalías coastal plain in Almeria.
The vast agricultural hub is often referred to as the 'Sea of Plastic' and is visible even from space.
Almeria's plastic sea of Greenhouses, the world's largest concentration, near El Ejido,Spain
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