A 14-year-old boy lost his fingers in a meat grinder accident at a popular coffee shop

14-year-old boy loses fingers in meat grinder

KOTA KINABALU: A 14-year-old boy lost his fingers in a meat grinder accident at a popular coffee shop here.

The boy known as Azmin lost two fingers in the mishap at 8.25pm, after his hand got sucked into the grinder.

“Firemen were called in to help but they could not remove the hand. He was taken to the hospital in an ambulance with a part of the grinder,” said a witness at the scene of the incident in Gaya Street on Thursday.

The boy was supposed to use chopsticks to push meat into the grinder but instead used his hand which was sucked in by the machine.

Meanwhile, a Department Of Occupational Safety and Health spokesman said yesterday two investigators were sent to check safety arrangements at the coffee shop.

Labour officials are investigating why the shop employed a child.

In an unrelated case, police are investigating the dumping of a five-month old foetus buried outside a Taman Che Mei house here on Thursday.

This is the fourth case of foetus dumping reported this year.

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