A man who got stuck under a roller shutter at a Brussels metro station has died. It is already the fourth time in three months that someone is trapped between the metro shutters in the Belgian capital.
The 33-year-old man tried to enter the Rogier station just before the mechanical shutters opened, the metro manager reports. When the shutters went up, the man from Rwanda got stuck with his chest.
When firefighters arrived, the man was still alive. After freeing him, they tried to resuscitate the man, but to no avail. He died on the spot.
Last Wednesday, the emergency services also had to turn out for a person who was stuck with one leg in a metro station. In the weeks before, two people were also trapped between the shutters. In those cases, no one died, but they did sustain injuries from the entrapments.
According to the metro manager, it is always about people trying to enter the stations. They stick their fingers through small openings in the shutters and then risk being dragged along when the shutters open automatically. Then you can stay stuck. It’s unclear why people do that right before the shutters open. The police start an investigation.
For the time being, the transport organization is not taking any measures. “The shutters open promptly at 4.30 am, there is no reason to enter earlier,” a spokesperson told the Belgian newspaper Nieuwsblad.
2023-06-03 12:27:54
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