A Thai woman’s leg had to be amputated at the knee after it became trapped in a moving walkway at an international airport in Bangkok, officials say.
Medics assist a woman who lost part of her leg when it became caught in a walkway at Don Mueang International Airport in Bangkok on Thursday.Zhenzhen Liu
The airport medical team responded quickly and transferred her to a local hospital, Karant said. She was later moved to a different hospital, where she underwent surgery to amputate her leg at the knee. The victim’s son, Krit Kittirattana, said the family was “most concerned about her mental state” and how she would adjust long term.
Don Mueang is the smaller and older of two international airports in Bangkok, the capital of Thailand. Since Suvarnabhumi Airport opened in 2006, Don Mueang has served mainly as a secondary hub for low-cost flights in the Bangkok metropolitan region. “The shoe got sucked into the walkway right away,” he said in a Facebook post the following month. “I was shocked, and when I looked, I could see that the safety comb was broken, that was the reason my shoe got sucked in.”Koomsalud said he did “not want to imagine” what could have happened if he had waited a second longer or if his shoe had been more difficult to slip off. He filed a complaint with the airport but said he had not heard back aside from an initial text three weeks earlier.
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