An Australian woman has been killed in a ski lift accident at a popular snow resort in Japan.<\/p>\n
The 22-year-old was taking a lift at the Tsugaike Mountain Resort in central Japan on Friday morning when she became caught and suffered critical injuries.<\/p>\n
Resort chief executive Tsuneo Kubo said the woman’s backpack got caught in the lift carriage, causing her to be dragged along with the lift after she disembarked.<\/p>\n
“Staff subsequently pressed the stop button to halt the lift,” Mr Kubo said in a statement.<\/p>\n
“Prompt rescue efforts were undertaken, and the customer was transported by ambulance.”<\/p>\n
Local police confirmed the woman died in hospital later on Friday.<\/p>\n
An earlier statement from Mr Kubo said the woman was rushed to hospital “in a condition believed to be cardiac arrest”.<\/p>\n
He said the company was complying with police investigations.<\/p>\n
“We will continue to cooperate fully with the police and relevant authorities in their investigations, while simultaneously working to establish a safer operational framework,” Mr Kubo said.<\/p>\n
“This lift will only resume operation once all investigations are complete and measures to prevent recurrence have been fully implemented.”<\/p>\n
Australia’s Department of Foreign Affairs said it was providing consular assistance to the woman’s family.<\/p>\n
“We send our deepest condolences to the family at this difficult time,” a spokesperson said.<\/p>\n
“Owing to our privacy obligations we are unable to provide further comment.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Australian woman has been killed in a ski lift accident at a popular snow resort in Japan.…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":560238,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2],"tags":[4740,244740,244738,244741,50,244739,244737],"class_list":["post-560237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-australia","tag-australian-woman-killed-japan-snow-resort","tag-brooke-day","tag-dfat","tag-news","tag-ski-lift-accident","tag-tsugaike-mountain-resort"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115999353308015418","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=560237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560237\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/560238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=560237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=560237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=560237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}