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tragic, preventable accident occurred at the baggage carousel in the Alicante
airport in Spain, resulting in the death of a five-month-old baby. It is still
unclear why and how the baby got onto the conveyor belt at the oversized luggage claim.
A security officer at the airport reported she did not see what happened but
heard that the mother placed the baby on the conveyor belt to reach for
something, possibly her luggage. The mother, an American woman, was traveling
with the five month old and another small child, from a London airport. The
family was meeting the father, a Canadian man, at the Alicante airport. The
death appears to be accidental but a further investigation will be pursued.
The
heartbreaking death of the five-month-old baby must cause unimaginable pain on
their family. The mother’s moment of poor decision has now led to a lifetime of
loss. I do not know and can not even fathom what went through the mother’s mind
when she decided it was okay to place her newly born child on a conveyor belt
that carries oversized luggage. It is sad that she accidently caused the death
of her own baby and will have to live with that guilt for the rest of her life, but at the same time, this tragic mistake could have very well been prevented.
http://www.cnn.com/2013/09/19/world/europe/spain-baby-death/index.html?hpt=hp_t2
http://www.cnn.com/2013/09/19/world/europe/spain-baby-death/index.html?hpt=hp_t2
I am trying to come up with an opposing cultural component to this news article, but I'm having trouble doing so. Perhaps the way Spanish news reported on this event might be different from CNN.
ReplyDeleteI've Googled different articles, and the only strange thing is that the baby is reported to be Canadian in one article and British in the Spanish media.
This is such a sad story... I can't even imagine the mother's pain let alone the whole family...
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