The woman collapsed after being hit by a suitcase and her leg got caught at the end of the travellator. Read more at straitstimes.com.
BANGKOK - A woman had part of her leg amputated after she got stuck in a travellator at Bangkok’s Don Mueang International Airport on Thursday morning.She was then rushed to Bhumibol Adulyadej Hospital for treatment.
Footage from security cameras at the airport’s domestic terminal shows the woman collapsing at 8.30am after being hit by a suitcase while on the walkway between departure gates four and five.Graphic images published in Thai-language media, and on Facebook, show a young woman in agonising pain struggling to free her leg from a conveyor belt.Airport officials say they are investigating the incident and will issue a report once the probe is completed.
Mr Karun Thanakuljeerapat, the airport’s director, said that the walkway had been shut while engineers investigate what happened.Airport management expressed condolences to the victim and said they would pay her medical bills as well as compensate her for the loss of her left leg, a post on the airport’s Facebook page said. THE NATION/ASIA NEWS NETWORK
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