A woman has died after becoming entangled in an airport baggage carousel.
The Chicago Fire Department was called to the city’s O’Hare Airport around 7:45am on Thursday to a report of a woman ‘pinned in machinery’.
Firefighters said she was trapped in the conveyer belt system at Terminal 5. Paramedics pronounced the 57-year-old woman dead at the scene.
The woman was not a worker at the airport, according to a spokesperson from the Department of Labor.
Chicago police said surveillance video showed her entering the employees-only area just before 2:30am, which means her body wasn’t discovered for five hours.
The woman was found dead in a restricted area of Chicago’s O’Hare Airport, pictured
Firefighters said she was pinned in the machinery of the conveyor belt system that moves luggage to and from planes
The area has since been declared a crime scene and handed over to investigators with the Chicago Police Department, the Chicago Tribune reported.
Authorities said the part of the airport the woman entered is restricted to employees, and while it’s considered secure, it isn’t a high security area, ABC 7 reported.
This section of the international terminal is filled with conveyor belts that bring luggage to and from planes. Bags in this area also go through customs.
Police haven’t revealed if they were able to track the woman’s movements after she entered the restricted area.
There was a large presence of first responders at the airport at around 9am.
The woman’s identity hasn’t been released to the public, and it’s also unclear where she lived or why she was at the airport.
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