Girl, 12, in coma after escalator accident
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A 12-year-old girl is in a critical condition after her head got stuck between an escalator and the upper floor as the escalator was moving up at Future Park Rangsit, a mega-mall north of Bangkok yesterday.
Nuanprae Wasutpichaikul’s hair got entangled in the escalator while she bent down to watch a show on the second floor of the mall while standing on an escalator moving from the second to the third floor.
Before security guards could stop the escalator, Nuanprae passed out. Nuanprae stopped breathing but paramedics were able to resuscitate her. She was rushed to Pathumwet Hospital.
Wichitra Wasutpichaikul, Nuanprae’s mother, fainted when she saw her daughter’s head stuck to the escalator. She later said she had dropped her daughter off at the mall to study at a tuition centre. She had told her daughter to go ahead and attend her class while she was searching for a place to park.
Doctors said the girl has a blood clot in the brain and is in coma.
