BEIJING (AP) — A Chinese woman has died after being trapped in a shopping mall escalator, but not before pushing her 2-yearold son to safety.
The horrific accident Sunday in the central city of Jingzhou was caught on surveillance camera footage.
The woman — identified in media reports as 30-yearold 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.
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