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Tourist loses leg after getting caught in travelator at airport
WARNING GRAPHIC CONTENT: The tourist was at Don Mueang International Airport when she tripped over her suitcase and got stuck on the travelator, which ripped through her limb.
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"Woman loses her leg after getting caught in an airport travelator: Passengers' horror as moving walkway at Bangkok airport mangles victim's limb forcing medics to amputate it in order to free her.
A female tourist has had her leg amputated after getting it caught in a moving walkway at Bangkok airport.The 57-year-old Thai passenger was due to board a flight from Bangkok's Don Mueang Airport to the southern Nakhon Si Thammarat province this morning in the airport's Terminal 2.
But in a freak accident, she tripped over her pink suitcase before her left leg was dragged into the mechanism at the end of the travelator.
Horrified passersby fumbled to turn off the emergency switch as the machine continued tearing through the limb's muscle, tendon, and bone."

