A woman has died after she was sucked into a meat grinder by her hair in front of her teenage daughter.
The shocking incident took place in the municipality of Missolonghi in western Greece, when the 50-year-old woman, named only as Ana who was originally from Albania, started cleaning the meat grinder in a butcher’s shop on Friday, 29th September.
Ana and her 18-year-old daughter, who has not been named, worked together as shop cleaners and went to the butcher’s to clean the meat grinder when the woman was pulled into the machine in front of her shocked daughter.
Local media reported that her hair was caught in the machine, causing her to be pulled into it and fatally mangled.
Local media reported that Ana’s daughter ran to the street and started to shout to people to help her mother. A passer-by entered the store and discovered the horrific scene.
The police, an ambulance and the fire brigade rushed to the scene but there was no chance of pulling her free, and the operation to free her from the machine took hours, and was only finished just before midnight.
According to local media, the unfortunate woman had been living with her daughter, her 10-year-old son and her mother in Greece for two years where she moved after separating from her husband.
A person who knew Ana told local media: “She was a very good woman. She worked from morning to night to provide for her kids.”
Ana’s daughter was taken to hospital in a state of shock before later being discharged. She and her 10-year-old brother have been at a friend’s house since the tragedy.
