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5 month old boy crushed to death in luggage carousel.

  • 19-09-2013 10:40PM
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    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,380 ✭✭✭✭Banjo String


    http://www.thejournal.ie/spain-airport-baby-death-1091953-Sep2013/Poor wee thing.
    A FIVE-MONTH-OLD baby died in a Spanish airport earlier today after it was trapped in a luggage carousel.

    Police are “investigating the exact circumstances”, said a Civil Guard spokesman, adding that it “appears to have been an accident”.

    The baby’s mother – a US national – had placed the child’s carrier on a static luggage belt but, according to reports, the weight prompted it to begin moving.

    The boy’s parents had taken a flight from London early this morning to the eastern seaside city of Alicante, an airport spokeswoman told AFP.

    “It was about two o’clock in the morning, on the belt for retrieving special baggage, where children’s push chairs and large items come out. “The airport medical service tried to resuscitate the baby but they could not do anything.”

    The infant became entangled and trapped in the rollers where the bags emerge. A post-mortem will be carried out tomorrow.



    As a father of two little ones myself, makes for very disturbing reading. Especially as we're not long back after a short stint away together ourselves, and journeys through airports with two small children ain't easy.

    Thoughts and prayers are with the poor family.

    R.I.P to the little one.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,877 ✭✭✭Dr. Bre


    that is disturbing..


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 83 ✭✭Jiggers77


    http://www.thejournal.ie/spain-airport-baby-death-1091953-Sep2013/Poor wee thing.





    As a father of two little ones myself, makes for very disturbing reading. Especially as we're not long back after a short stint away together ourselves, and journeys through airports with two small children ain't easy.

    Thoughts and prayers are with the poor family.

    R.I.P to the little one.


    Such a sad loss for these poor people!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 13,925 ✭✭✭✭anncoates


    Hoping there won't be any high horse posts about parents

    Horrible thing to happen.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 11,217 ✭✭✭✭m5ex9oqjawdg2i


    IT's a very sad story, but I just cannot understand how it happened.

    First of all, why chose the luggage carousel to put down your child? I know it wasn't moving, but still.

    When it did begin to move, how could the parents not pick the child back off the rotating carousel?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,401 ✭✭✭lukesmom


    IT's a very sad story, but I just cannot understand how it happened.

    First of all, why chose the luggage carousel to put down your child? I know it wasn't moving, but still.

    When it did begin to move, how could the parents not pick the child back off the rotating carousel?

    Probably couldn't pick the child up in time, just a tragic accident


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  • Posts: 6,645 ✭✭✭ Jessie CoolS Van


    Can't believe all the parent blaming posts on other sites. Just incredible.
    IT's a very sad story, but I just cannot understand how it happened.

    First of all, why chose the luggage carousel to put down your child? I know it wasn't moving, but still.
    When it did begin to move, how could the parents not pick the child back off the rotating carousel?

    It's not really as stupid as it sounds. She probably needed to get something out of a bag and putting the kid (who was in a baby carrier) onto the carousel for a second was probably easier (on her back etc) than putting him on the floor. There was no indication the thing was going to start moving anytime soon, presumably. As for why she couldn't get him back off, who knows. Maybe he was already very close to the rollers. Maybe she'd turned her back for a minute to tend to the other kid or get something out of a bag. Easily done, I imagine. Especially when tired (it was 11.30pm and they may have also done a transatlantic flight).


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 882 ✭✭✭French Toast


    Hard to get your head around. 5 months old like, he was yet to commit a sin or make a single enemy in the world. Such a tragic loss.

    Rest in peace little man.


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