Elderly Immigrant Dies in Escalator Accident
An elderly Cuban immigrant taking her first steps in the United States was crushed to death Sunday in an escalator accident at Miami International Airport, police said. At least five other passengers were injured.
Bertola Agrispina Acosta-Bereda, 75, was killed under the weight of her fellow passengers as they fell on an escalator to the U.S. Customs Service and Immigration offices, police said. It was not immediately clear whether the escalator malfunctioned or if the immigrants’ unfamiliarity with the machinery prompted the fall, police said.
The immigrants had arrived on a weekly charter flight bringing Cuban immigrants to the United States from Havana and exiles home from visits to the island.
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