A pensioner died after she fell on an escalator in a WHSmith store in Wales, an inquest has heard.

Margaret Rose Harris, 90, had been shopping in the Quadrant Shopping Centre in Swansea when the accident unfolded on January 21.

She suffered ‘traumatic lacerations’ to her right leg, which she tried to recover from.

During an inquest into her death, held at Swansea’s Guildhall yesterday, the coroner heard that the retired administrator was prescribed apixaban and aspirin, but the medications failed to stop the bleeding from her wounds.

The medications would have contributed to the continuous bleeding, it heard.

Ms Harris, from St Thomas, died shortly after the shopping centre accident.

There were found to be no faults with the escalator or the surrounding environment.

Senior coroner A

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