Airport baggage belt accident kills Canadian's five-month-old baby

A five-month-old baby boy has died in an accident after being placed on a baggage conveyor belt at an airport in southeast Spain, local authorities said Thursday.

A spokeswoman for the Alicante airport management company Aena said the baby and his American mother arrived at the airport late Wednesday on a flight from London.

The baby's father, a Canadian, was waiting for them at the airport's arrivals zone when the incident happened.

A Guardia Civil spokesman told British newspaper The Independent that the investigation is still in the early stages and they are looking at CCTV footage, but it seems that it was an accident.

[link to ca.news.yahoo.com]