Mum Sucked Into Escalator Horror Saves Son

Pic shows: Trying to fix the escalator. A mum was killed after slipping through an escalator panel and being sucked into the mechanism, after she just managed to push her young son to safety. Tragic Xiang Liujuan,30, was at a shopping mall in Jingzhou city of central China’s Hubei Province when she and her two -year-old son fell through a metallic access panel after reaching the top of the escalator on the seventh floor. Surveillance footage from the store shows the horrific moment Liujuan’s begins to tumble , thrusting her three-year-old son upwards and handing him over to shop assistants standing at the top of the escalators. While Liujuan’s son was rescued safely, the escalator continued rolling and she was dragged into the mechanism, crushing her to death as she disappears from sight. Zhang Wei, Liujuan’s husband can also be seen in the surveillance footage standing at the bottom of the escalator. He panics as the incident unfolds before his eyes and scrambles to find the nearest lift. Jingzhou public security bureau and the local fire department were called to Anliang shopping mall and spent some four hours disassembling the escalator. However, by the time they managed to free Liujuan, she was already showing no signs of life. Initial reports said that maintenance was recently carried out on the escalator, and that workers had forgotten to screw the access panel back in place. According to Zhang Wei, his son liked escalators and Liujuan was accompanying him on a ride between the sixth and seventh floors. An investigation into the cause of the accident is continuing. (ends)