Woman die on China escalator

Security footage has shown how a Chinese woman, Xiang Liujuan, 31-year old saves her son in an escalator accident before falling to her death. The video started as the woman hold her son on an escalator to the fifth floor of the mall, but as the woman and her son reaches the top of the elevator, the escalator panel suddenly opens up at the top, and the woman plunges inside it, but not before saving her son.

        

There were 2 other women standing at the front of the stairway, and seems to be telling Xiang about the escalator malfunctions, but it was late, as it kills the woman, though one of the ladies tried rescuing her, but could not help the woman.

                

                               The woman son

It was reported that maintenance has just been carried out on the escalator at Anliang department store in Jingzhou in the central province of Hubei, but the maintenance staff forgot to screw the access cover back into place.

After a 4 hour rescue operation, she was declared dead when they found her body on Sunday afternoon.

 

 

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