围巾被夹 加拿大女子命丧地铁扶手电梯

A 48-year-old woman died Thursday morning in the Fabre métro station after it appears her scarf and then her hair got caught in the teeth of the escalator. She was apparently strangled by her incident, which has been deemed an accident by Montreal police, occurred at 9:15 a.m. at the station on the corner of Jean Talon Street East and Fabre Street in the Villeray district, said Constable Jean-Pierre Brabant.“The woman’s scarf got caught in the escalator and then she bent down to try to get it out and her hair got stuck, too,” Brabant said. “A bystander called 911 and by the time police arrived, she was declared dead,” by an Urgences-Santé paramedic.

加拿大蒙特利尔市（Montreal）地铁发生扶手电梯杀人事件，一名48岁妇人的围巾被扶手电梯夹住后，蹲下企图将围巾扯出时，却不幸地连头发也被夹住，最后活活被勒死。

“We got a call a little after 9 a.m. that there was a woman found at the bottom of an escalator, trapped, and that there was an article of clothing involved,” said Robert Lamle, a spokesperson with Urgences-Santé. “The woman was in cardiac arrest."

事发于前天（1月30日）早上9时15分，现场为蒙特利尔一个无人站岗的法布雷（Fabre）车站。目击者表示，出事妇人当时搭下行扶手电梯，围巾被夹住，她蹲下身子企图扯出围巾，却连头发也被夹住，躺在电梯末端。两名好心乘客立即上前施救，妇人最初仍有呼吸，但救护人员赶到时，她已没心跳。

“The firefighters, first responders, got there first and began resuscitation efforts. Our technicians arrived and took over but it was not viable and the woman was declared dead,” Lamle e is an emergency stop button at the top and bottom of the escalator, which is the case for all escalators serving the métro system. Brabant said he did not know whether anyone pressed the stop button while the woman was struggling. He said a witness, whom police are looking for, used an STM emergency phone to call for help. He asked anyone else who witnessed the incident to call engineer who has been working on these mechanisms for the Sociéte de Transport Montreal for the past nine years told The Gazette escalators are equipped with safety mechanisms that are supposed to prevent this kind of accident.

交通局工程师表示，地铁扶手电梯设有安全装置，一旦有乘客跌倒或有物件夹住，电梯就会停止运作。每个地铁站的扶手电梯也设有“停止”按钮，乘客遇有意外，可立刻按键，煞停电梯。