A 57-year-old Thai woman had to have her leg amputated after she got caught up in a moving walkway at an international airport in Bangkok
Don Mueang International Airport’s director Karant Thanakuljeerapat said the incident took place at around 8:27 a.m. local time in the southern corridor of the domestic passenger terminal. Speaking at a news conference Thursday, Karant said the woman, who was traveling to the southern city of Nakhon Si Thammarat, had a “severe” accident at the end of a moving walkway after her left leg became caught in the end of the walkway.
Karant, the airport director, said Airports Of Thailand , the state-owned company that operates airports across the country, would take care of all medical expenses and provide compensation. All of the airport’s moving walkways have had their service suspended while the cause of the incident is investigated and engineers do safety checks, he added. “The cause of the incident is still under investigation to find the facts.
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