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A shocking video seemingly showing a mother fall to her death beneath an escalator in front of her son has appeared online.
The 15-second video was uploaded to YouTube today, and claims to show CCTV footage from the Jingzhou Shashi Anliang department store in China.
The video shows the mother and boy reaching the top of the escalator, before the floor in front collapses.
Woman KILLED BY Escalator FAIL SAVES CHILD ..
The mother manages to push the child to safety, but is swallowed up into the machinery, despite the efforts of staff.
According to LiveLeak, the woman's body was found three hours later.
It is not the first time a faulty escalator has claimed someone's life.
Earlier this year, six-year-old Nurhayada Sofia died at a shopping centre in Malaysia when she fell five floors having being dragged over the edge by an escalator.
Last year mother of two Naima Rharouity died when she fell while travelling on an escalator in Montreal. A piece of clothing got stuck in the mechansim and tightened around her neck, strangling her.
And in 2003, Professor Sally Baldwin, from York, died when the escalator she was using at a railway station in Rome collapsed and trapped her in the cogwheels .. .. ..
The 30-year-old mother was travelling up the escalator with her young son at the centre in Jingzhou when she stepped on a silver floor plate at the top which gave way, according to CCTV news ..
She managed to save her son by pushing him forward and he was quickly grabbed by a bystander ..
With half of her body hanging down the shaft, shopping mall staff tried desperately to pull the woman to safety, however tragically she fell to her death ..
The tragic incident was captured on CCTV cameras ..
Rescue crews later recovered the woman’s body from inside the escalator Woman Dies After Being 'Swallowed' By Escalator In China Woman Dies After Being 'Swallowed' By Escalator In China
The 15-second video was uploaded to YouTube today, and claims to show CCTV footage from the Jingzhou Shashi Anliang department store in China.
The video shows the mother and boy reaching the top of the escalator, before the floor in front collapses.
Woman KILLED BY Escalator FAIL SAVES CHILD ..
The mother manages to push the child to safety, but is swallowed up into the machinery, despite the efforts of staff.
According to LiveLeak, the woman's body was found three hours later.
It is not the first time a faulty escalator has claimed someone's life.
Earlier this year, six-year-old Nurhayada Sofia died at a shopping centre in Malaysia when she fell five floors having being dragged over the edge by an escalator.
Last year mother of two Naima Rharouity died when she fell while travelling on an escalator in Montreal. A piece of clothing got stuck in the mechansim and tightened around her neck, strangling her.
And in 2003, Professor Sally Baldwin, from York, died when the escalator she was using at a railway station in Rome collapsed and trapped her in the cogwheels .. .. ..
The 30-year-old mother was travelling up the escalator with her young son at the centre in Jingzhou when she stepped on a silver floor plate at the top which gave way, according to CCTV news ..
She managed to save her son by pushing him forward and he was quickly grabbed by a bystander ..
With half of her body hanging down the shaft, shopping mall staff tried desperately to pull the woman to safety, however tragically she fell to her death ..
The tragic incident was captured on CCTV cameras ..
Rescue crews later recovered the woman’s body from inside the escalator Woman Dies After Being 'Swallowed' By Escalator In China Woman Dies After Being 'Swallowed' By Escalator In China
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