Girl's hand crushed in sugar cane machine at Toa Payoh hawker centre

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A 14-year-old girl's hand was crushed in a sugar cane machine on Sunday evening.

Eyewitnesses said the incident happened when the girl was helping her father out at his sugar cane stall at a hawker centre in Toa Payoh Lorong 8.

The Singapore Civil Defence Force said they received a call about the incident around 8.40pm.

They said the girl's right hand was stuck in the machine when they arrived.

Rescuers had to use tools to release her hand.

She was then sent conscious to Tan Tock Seng Hospital.

Channel NewsAsia understands the injuries sustained were from her fingers to wrist area and her bones were crushed.