A SIX-YEAR-OLD GIRL had to have part of her foot and three toes amputated after it became trapped in a shopping centre escalator in South Africa, according to reports.
Relatives said Miskhe Roux slipped on the moving stairway at the Galleria mall in Amanzimtoti, south of Durban on the country’s eastern coast, and her foot got trapped in the side.
Her grandfather Hannes Rabe told the country’s IOL News: “There was lots of blood and her bones were sticking out.”
Roux was taken to hospital, where an operation was carried out to remove “three of her toes and a piece of her foot”, Rabe said.
A spokesperson for the shopping centre told the Daily News that Roux should not have gone on the escalator without shoes. “There are signs all over the mall that people should not walk on the escalator barefoot,” she said.
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