Mother in China Falls Into Escalator and Dies, Saving Son

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Mother in China Falls Into Escalator and Dies, Saving Son

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China: A mother, shopping with her husband and son, falls into an escalator and dies, but saves her son. They were at Anliang department store in Jingzhou in the central province of Hubei, a Chinese department store.

Maintenance had just finished servicing the escalator and forgot to screw in the platform when they were finished, which caused the fatal accident.

All of this was caught on the department store's CCTV security cameras.

Here is the unedited/uncensored video version, so viewer discretion is advised:



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A woman has been killed after she plunged through an access cover of an escalator in a Chinese department store, thrusting her toddler to safety as she fell to her death.

Xiang Liujuan, 30, was holding her son in front of her as they went up the stairway on Saturday, the Wuhan Evening News said.......


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Seriously made in China. RIP.
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Not sure why that appears to me to be a sadder than usual senseless death. Concur: RIP.
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Horrible, RIP

I think Khmer workers have higher standards than the Chinese.
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vladimir wrote:Horrible, RIP

I think Khmer workers have higher standards than the Chinese.
Yeah right. That is why I had my rear tyre overtake me after the car came back from service.
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hanno wrote:
vladimir wrote:Horrible, RIP

I think Khmer workers have higher standards than the Chinese.
Yeah right. That is why I had my rear tyre overtake me after the car came back from service.
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I went to AEON Mall today and I seriously saw 2 Khmer chicks jump over the part of the elevator that caved in in the above mentioned video. :facepalm:

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