Military plane airlifts 226-kg woman home

Weighty issue

Dominique Lanoise, who weighs 226 kg, at her provisional home in Boca Chica on Wednesday. REUTERS

But rescue came in the form of the air force of the Caribbean country, which agreed to return Dominique Lanoise on board a military plane to the US, where she has lived for four years, local media reported on Tuesday.

Lanoise, a naturalised US citizen, told the press that she flew to Haiti, the Dominican Republic’s neighbour on the island of Hispaniola, in November on board a private plane. Since then, she has been sitting in a wheelchair after injuring her leg upon her arrival.The newspaper El Diario Libre reported that she travelled from Haiti to Santo Domingo on a bed loaded in the back of a truck.

Lanoise said she has seven children in Miami but no relatives in Haiti after they were killed in the January 12 earthquake there.