介绍:
A woman was killed in an escalator accident at a shopping mall last Sunday. A one-year-old boy got stuck by an escalator in Guangxi, seriously injured his left arm.
A 30-year-old woman was killed after being stuck and swallowed by an escalator in a shopping mall in Jingzhou, central China's Hubei Province on Sunday morning.
A seconds-long security camera footage of the incident posted online shocked the public and stirred up heated discussion over escalator safety.
The victim was holding her son in front of her as they went up the stairway, being the only passengers on the ascending escalator.
Several female mall attendants were waiting on the end of the escalator as they approached the upper floor.
The mother then lifted up her son and pushed him forward as a nearby shop assistant dragged him to safety. Nearly at the same moment, the panel she stepped on collapsed. The woman's lower body was immediately stuck by the running escalator.
The escalator continued rolling, and several seconds later she was seen disappearing downwards into the mechanism, despite one of the staff briefly grabbing her hand.
Fire fighters spent four hours cutting open the facility to set free the woman. But she was already dead when her body was pulled out.
The accident was one of the top topics on China's Twitter-like Sina Weibo with more than 6.6 million views.
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