Australian woman dies after backpack gets caught in ski lift at Japan resort

Brooke Day. PIC/BY SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT

An Australian woman died after her backpack caught on a ski lift on a Japanese mountain and she became suspended mid-air, police said Monday.

Tsugaike Mountain Resort in Japan

Brooke Day, 22, was preparing to get off the lift on Friday morning at Tsugaike Mountain Resort in Hakuba Valley when a loose buckle from her backpack became caught in the lift chair.

Brooke, who had secured the rucksack with a chest strap, was then dragged by the lift and became "suspended" mid-air, a spokesman for Nagano regional police said.

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