Video: Chinese Woman Swallowed by Escalator

A horrendous escalator accident at shopping mall in Jingzhou, China, resulted in a death of a woman who used his last seconds to save her two-year-old son.

In a graphic video released by the surveillance camera, the woman is seen approaching at the upper floor, while three mall attendants are waiting to assist her and her child.

It appears that end part of escalator collapsed and the woman is being dragged down by escalator. The woman managed to push her child to the attendants before she totally disappeared.

According to a report published by Syracuse.com, it took four hours for the crew to disassemble the escalator and recover her body.

A woman identified as sister-in-law of the victim tweeted, “An ordinary Sunday shopping trip ended up in such a sudden tragedy, almost ruining an entire family.

“The shopping mall is still open and the killer escalators are still running,” she added. “Shoppers have no idea about the tragedy upstairs and no one knows if such disasters will strike again.”

According to The Guardian, citing an unnamed source, the escalator had just undergone maintenance, and workers reportedly forgot to screw the access cover back into place.

The video was circulated heavily on the Internet in China, and police are investigating the incident.

Online viewers questioned why the escalator didn’t stop after Xiang fell inside, and why no one thought to push the emergency stop button, the Hong Kong Free Press reported.

Escalator deaths are relatively rare, but not unheard of in China, where a somewhat cavalier attitude towards safety and quality control has led to multiple incidents.

On Sunday, there was another incident in Beijing where a boy’s foot got trapped in an escalator, CNN reported. He was rescued by firefighters and only slightly injured.

There is no further details about the response of the mall owner.

/Adrian Lee/

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