BEIJING (AP) — A Chinese woman
died after being trapped in a shopping mall escalator, but not before
pushing her 2-year-old son to safety.
Sunday's
horrific accident in the central city of Jingzhou was caught on
surveillance camera footage that circulated heavily on the Internet in
China.
The woman — identified
in media reports as 30-year-old Xiang Liujuan — is shown reaching the
top of the escalator when the section of landing platform she had
stepped onto suddenly collapses, trapping her inside the still-moving
machinery.
The footage shows
that Xiang managed to push her son into the arms of shop attendants near
the top of the escalator. The attendants tried to pull her to safety,
but Xiang fell into the mechanism and was killed.
The
state-run People's Daily's online edition and other media outlets said
her body was recovered four hours later, after crews disassembled the
escalator.
Although escalator
deaths are extremely rare, China's breakneck economic development and
sometimes cavalier attitude toward safety, quality control and
maintenance have led to frequent industrial accidents such as fires,
building and bridge collapses, and ship sinkings or collisions.
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