Almost 30 people were somewhat injured after they tumbled down and damaged onto one another whilst scrambling up an escalator at a Bangkok Transit System (BTS)’s Surasak station within Bangkok’s Bang Rak district on Saturday evening.
According to a declaration issued by skytrain operator BTS, the particular incident occurred around 6. 38pm while it was raining when a large number of commuters scrambled up an escalator at the BTS’ Surasak station on Pramuan road after going to a concert partying the 170th founding anniversary of Bangkok Christian College.
The event happened when some people at the top end from the moving escalator tripped and fell. They will tumbled down the escalator, causing other commuters to fall plus crash on one an additional. Twenty-eight people, most of them women, were documented to have sustained minor injuries.
Rescue workers of the Ruam Katanyu Basis reported that they hurried the injured in order to hospitals for treatment – three women to Lerd Bad thing Hospital, two ladies to Police Common Hospital, eight ladies to Chulalongkorn Medical center, two (a guy and a women) to Saint Louis Medical center, three women to Taksin Hospital, two women to Charoen Krung Pracharak Medical center, two women to Nakornthon Hospital, 4 women to Theptarin Hospital, one child to Somdech Phra Pinklao Hospital then one (sex not reported) to Bangkok Christian Hospital.
The escalator has been closed to service for examination after the incident.
BTS said in the statement that the corporation would take care of the injured. It refused an earlier report that this incident took place after the escalator malfunctioned.
Bangkok chief excutive Chadchart Sittipunt was reported to be also at the station with regard to inspection.