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CHICAGO (WGN) — A pistillate died Thursday aft getting trapped successful machinery astatine Chicago's O'Hare International Airport.
"They had idiosyncratic effort to spell up the container conveyor belt, and they got stuck and entangled themselves," an authoritative tin beryllium heard relaying to the Chicago Fire Department successful an audio clip obtained by Nexstar's WGN.
Authorities with the CFD responded to O'Hare's Terminal 5 astir 7:30 a.m. connected a telephone of an unresponsive female. Surveillance video from earlier that greeting showed the pistillate entering an unoccupied restricted country conscionable earlier 2:30 a.m., constabulary said.
Fire officials said the victim, identified lone arsenic a 57-year-old woman, had go entangled successful the conveyor loop strategy utilized for moving baggage done Terminal 5.
She was pronounced dormant astatine the scene.
"It's scary. Where's each the security? Where's each the cameras?" Cathy Keller, a pistillate who came to O'Hare connected Thursday to prime up a household member, told Nexstar's WGN aft learning of the incident. "How could thing similar that hap to anybody?"
Officials person not released the individuality of the victim, but the CFD said the incidental took spot successful a baggage handling country that is not accesible to the public.
A decease probe is ongoing.
