A woman in Thailand was forced to have her leg amputated at Bangkok’s Don Mueang Airport after the limb became trapped under a moving walkway, according to reports.

Its understood that the 57-year-old Thai woman, was on her way to board a morning flight to the southern Nakhon Si Thammarat province, when her leg got caught in the walkway inside the Bangkok airport’s Terminal 2. 

A medical team there eventually had to cut her left leg off above the knee, according to the airport’s officials.

“On behalf of the Don Mueang International Airport, I’d like to express my deepest condolences regarding the accident,” Don Mueang Airport Director Karun Thanakuljeerapat said during a press conference, as per The Associated Press (AP). 

“I’d like to insist that we will ensure that no such accident will happen again.”

He said the airport will absorb full responsibility for the woman’s medical costs and will be open for negotiation on other compensation. 

The medical team at the hospital where she was initially sent informed Thanakuljeerapat that they could not reattach her leg, however the woman requested to be transferred to another hospital to assess the possibility, he added.

Images circulated online shows the lower part of the woman’s leg trapped beneath the belt at the end of the walkway as she was being assisted by airport staff.

Thanakuljeerapat said airport walkways are checked daily, with an additional monthly inspection.

He added that the walkway had been closed, and a team of engineers was inspecting it to determine the cause of the accident.

In 2019, a passenger’s shoe was damaged after it was caught in the airport’s moving walkway in Terminal 1.