Chinese woman dies in horrific escalator accident, but saves son

[yuiyoshida]

A Chinese woman has died after being trapped in a shopping mall escalator, but not before pushing her 2-year-old son to safety.

The horrific accident Sunday in the central city of Jingzhou was caught on surveillance camera footage. A news report showing the tragic moment can be seen below.

The woman — identified in media reports as 30-year-old Xiang Liujuan — had reached the top of the escalator when the section of landing platform she had stepped onto suddenly collapsed, 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.

http://asiancorrespondent.com/134385/chinese-woman-dies-in-horrific-escalator-accident-but-saves-son/

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1. What a horrible

way to die.

[Catherine Vincent]

2. Horrible!

That poor woman.

[SamKnause]

3. n/t

[City Lights]

4. Yikes, how horrible! nt

[EL34x4]

5. Good Lord, how ghastly.

Picturing in my mind exactly what happened and it's gruesome.

From here on out, I will think of this type of mechanical failure every time I step on an escalator.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

6. Jesus.

Do they not have an emergency stop button?

Or did the people not think or know to use it?