Chicago O’Hare Airport: Woman crushed to death in conveyor belt
Police are trying to piece together the final movements of a woman who has been found dead, entangled in a conveyor belt at a major United States airport.
Reports confirm that she was crushed by the conveyor belt after entering a restricted area at O’Hare International Airport in Chicago on Thursday morning.
Airport security revisited camera footage and discovered the woman entering the area at 2:27am via the International Terminal, after the discovery of her body at around 7:40am.
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“She was pinned in machinery,” Merritt said.
“The person was DOA and the scene and the conveyor belt area was turned over to the police as a crime scene,” Merritt added.
The woman believed to be in her 40s has not been identified yet, according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
