Hinata Goto reportedly fell as he was trying to get off the 30-metre-long walkway
A five-year-old boy has died after becoming trapped in a moving travelator at a ski resort in northern Japan, local media have said.
The victim, Hinata Goto, died on Sunday after his right arm became trapped in the walkway’s winding mechanism during a family skiing trip to Otaru, a city on Japan’s northernmost island of Hokkaido.
Firefighters had freed the unconscious boy, who was wearing ski wear and boots, from the mechanism about 40 minutes after receiving an emergency call from his mother, the Asahi Shimbun said, adding that he was pronounced dead after being taken to hospital.
Hinata, from the nearby city of Sapporo, reportedly fell as he was trying to get off the 30-metre-long walkway, which connects the resort’s car park with a ski slope, the Kyodo news agency quoted police as saying.
