Baby dies after getting trapped in baggage carousel

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A five-month-old boy has been trapped and killed on a baggage carousel at a Spanish airport after he was left on the conveyor belt briefly as his mother reached out for something.

The horrifying incident happened at about 11.30pm on Wednesday (Sept 18) as the boy’s American mother just flew into Alicante-Elche airport with her baby and another young child on an easyJet flight from Gatwick, London. Her Canadian husband was waiting for the family in the arrivals zone.

The weight of the baby carrier was believed to have activated the special carousel for outsized luggage, carrying the infant off to the entrance of the bag drop, a Spanish police spokesman said.

Despite attempts to resuscitate the baby, he was pronounced dead by the airport’s on-call doctor at the scene.

Emergency services received a call requesting psychological counselling for the family, an emergency services spokeswoman said.