The son of the Thai mother who lost her leg in a faulty airport escalator believes she will be running faster than him in no time as she took her first steps on the road to recovery.
Suphannee Kittirattana yesterday took her first tentative steps since her leg was amputated after it got tangled in a dodgy travelator at Don Mueang International Airport in Bangkok on June 29.
The 57 year old Thai mother was walking on the travelator en route to a gate for a flight to Nakhon Si Thammarat province at about 8.30am when she fell and her foot got stuck in the metal gap while the machinery ripped through her muscle, and tendons and bones as she cried out in horror.
Paramedics swiftly performed the on-site amputation of her leg to extricate the Thai mother from the travelator. She was carefully placed on a stretcher, her…
