In July 2015, security footage surfaced showing a mother heroically saving her son’s life mere seconds before she was killed in a tragic escalator accident.
Warning: the following video is highly disturbing.
In the brief clip, the woman, who was identified by local media as Xiang Liujuan is seen with her young son in a shopping mall. The two take the escalator to the top second floor and as they prepare to step off, something horrifying happens.
AZG Mall in the central Chinese city of Jingzhou had already been having elevator issue earlier that day, hence why two employees stood nearby. However, upon stepping off the escalator, the protective panel collapses, causing the 30-year-old Mom to fall into the gap.
Xiang manages to push her young son away from the chasm and the two women grab him – right before she disappears inside the escalator. The employees had tried pulling the mother to safety, but were unsuccessful.
The woman’s family hopes for the story to be publicized to spread awareness of the tragedy and criticize the mall where the incident occurred.
“Facing the loss of a lively human being, our whole family is shocked and unable to react,” her sister-in-law wrote in a blog post. “We don’t know how to save all the proof about my brother’s wife’s suffering, so what we can do is to count on the media to record what happened.”
According to Buzzfeed, “a longer security camera video of the incident has been released and shows that the two staff members in the video tested the escalator, almost fell into it, but didn’t think to stop it from running. One stepped onto the panel to test it, then warned Xiang as she got close, telling her there was a problem with the escalator. Shortly after, Xiang was killed.”
If you are as shocked as we are by this horrible video then SHARE this video and publicize the tragedy as the woman’s family asked. Negligence should never lead to this kind of disaster.
Footage Shows Mom Saving Son Right Before She Is Killed By Escalator is an article from: LifeDaily