Nearly 30 individuals were slightly injured on an escalator at the Surasak Skytrain station within Bangkok’s Bang Rak district on Saturday evening.
According to a statement issued by skytrain operator Bangkok Transportation System (BTS), the particular incident occurred at about 6. 38pm every time a large number of commuters were scrambling up a good escalator at the Surasak station on Pramuan road after attending a concert partying the 170th wedding anniversary of Bangkok Christian College.
The incident occurred – as rainfall was fallling : when some people on top of the moving escalator tripped and fell. They tumbled back down the escalator, knocking other commuters down in a domino effect. Twenty-eight individuals, most of them women, had been reported to have continual minor injuries.
Rescue workers of the Ruam Katanyu Foundation reported they rushed the injured to hospitals to get treatment – three women to Lerd Sin Hospital, two women to Law enforcement General Hospital, eight women to Chulalongkorn Hospital, two (a man and a women) to Saint Louis Hospital, three women to Taksin Medical center, two women to Charoen Krung Pracharak Hospital, two ladies to Nakornthon Hospital, four women in order to Theptarin Hospital, one boy to Somdech Phra Pinklao Hospital and one (sex not really reported) to Bangkok Christian Hospital.
The escalator was closed pertaining to examination after the incident.
BTS said in its declaration that the company would certainly take care of the injured. It denied an earlier report that the incident took place after the escalator malfunctioned.
Bangkok governor Chadchart Sittipunt was reported to have gone to the station for an examination.