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According to CNN, Spanish investigators are trying to figure out how a 5-month-old baby died on a baggage carousel at an airport in Alicante.
The baggage carousel is a flat, black rubber-type belt that moves only in one direction and is only activated when oversized bags are sent out on it for pickup. It's several feet long and passengers can stand on either side of it or at the receiving end, said a spokeswoman for AENA, Spain’s airport authority on Thursday.
She added that it wasn’t clear how the baby ended up on the baggage belt for oversized luggage.
She said it was not immediately known if the infant was placed on the belt while it was stopped, or once it had started moving.
An unidentified security officer at the airport told Atlas she didn't see the incident, but was told that "the mother apparently put (the baby) down on the conveyer belt when she went to reach for something. He was crushed by the conveyer belt and it killed him."
Airport medical personnel rushed to the scene but were unable to revive the infant, the spokeswoman said.
The Spanish Civil Guard said the baby's death appears to be an accident, but an investigation is under way.
The infant's mother was an American woman who arrived at the airport late Wednesday on a flight from London's Gatwick airport with her baby and another young child. The Canadian father was already there waiting at the Alicante airport.
