Thailand: Rescuers amputate leg of woman stuck in travelator

A pistillate who got stuck successful an travelator successful Bangkok's Don Mueang airdrome had to person her limb amputated by rescuers.

Her lad said the household was "shocked" and disquieted astir her intelligence wellness aft the country was carried retired connected Thursday evening.

The 57-year-old's limb got stuck connected Thursday greeting aft she tripped implicit her suitcase portion connected her mode to committee a flight, section media said.

"My mother's morale is rather concerning," her lad wrote connected Facebook.

"We got to talk to her a spot earlier and aft the operation... Even though she showed her spot done facial look and code of voice, we knew that heavy down she was breached due to the fact that she abruptly mislaid a leg," Kit Kittirattana added.

"Our household knows precise good that we tin neither marque her limb enactment similar before, nor tin we bring backmost the aforesaid beingness she had lived," helium wrote.

Pictures online showed the pistillate - who has not been named - successful a sitting presumption with her near limb wedged underneath the travelator.

A pinkish suitcase adjacent to her had mislaid 2 wheels, portion yellowish comb plates typically recovered astatine the extremity of travelators had besides breached off.

Airport absorption said they were "deeply saddened" by the incidental and would compensate the pistillate for the partial nonaccomplishment of her near leg, arsenic good arsenic carnivore her aesculapian expenses.

And airdrome manager Karant Thanakuljeerapat told reporters connected Thursday that the origin of the incidental is nether investigation.

He added that the airdrome had planned to regenerate respective aged travelators by 2025 but whitethorn velocity up the process now.

Local media reported that the travelator successful question had been operating since 1996.