Customers at a bakery called the emergency services when their baker disappeared – paramedics tragically found Zoe Letsiou had been strangled to death after her scarf got caught in a bread machine
A baker was horrifically strangled to death after her scarf got caught in a bread-making machine.
Zoe Letsiou, 49, was believed to be cleaning the bread maker in her own baker when the scarf around her neck became tangled in the machine’s rollers. This caused the piece of clothing to tighten around her neck while the kneading machine continued to run. Emergency services rushed to her business, near Larissa, Greece, after customers noticed the owner had been missing from the storefront.
Paramedics desperately tried to resuscitate the 49-year-old but she was tragically pronounced dead at the scene.
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Zoe’s brother-in-law claimed she was cleaning the machine at the time of the tragedy. Another local baker echoed this and, speaking to ANT1 said: “The woman had finished production and was cleaning the machine, according to what her brother-in-law said.
“She was wearing a scarf which, when the machine started, got caught in the rollers and became a noose, and the scarf around her neck strangled her.”
Tributes for the loved baker have poured in from across the village of Damasi, around 30km north west of Larissa, according to The Sun. One person said: “Give courage to her family to bear the pain.”
Another person wrote: “What a shame, young woman. My deepest condolences to the family.”
This comes after a factor worker was crushed to death by a reversing lorry, while at work. Paul Clarke, 40, was killed after he hit by the vehicle as it reversed into a loading bay at a pasty-making factory in Callington, Cornwall.
The 40-year-old had recently joined the Samworth Brothers-operated Cornwall Bakery as an intake operator, and was moving strip curtains in the loading bay at the time of the tragic incident, on December 2, 2021.
Grainy CCTV footage, released last year, showed the van backing into a factory doorway, next to a pile of blue crates. When Mr Clarke was hit by the vehicle he was rushed to Derriford Hospital in Plymouth, Devon, where he later died.
The video was released after the owner of Ginsters was fined £1.28million after pleading guilty to health and safety breaches. A Health and Safety Executive (HSE) investigation found Samworth Brothers had not assessed the risks associated with the temporarily installed strip curtains.
Investigator added that there was no safe system of work to move them out of the way when the lorries reversed into the loading bay. The strip curtains had been installed in place of a faulty roller door.