Woman crushed to death by electronic gate

57-year-old killed in northern Israel while on her way to work; baby badly injured in car crash on Route 4

By ToI Staff 25 August 2017, 10:37 am

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The entrance to a supermarket in the northern city of Migdal Haemek, where a female employee at the store was crushed to death by the electronic gate on August 25, 2017. (Screen capture: Channel 2)

A woman was crushed to death in northern Israel Friday by an electronic gate.

The 57-year-old from Nazareth Illit was on her way to work at a supermarket in the northern city of Migdal Haemek when a heavy electronic gate leading to the store closed on her.

She was taken to the hospital in critical condition but was later pronounced dead.

Hebrew media reports said it appeared she was crushed by the gate after trying to open it.

Police opened an investigation into the incident.