Security camera footage
has emerged of a mother saving her young son's life seconds before losing her
own on an escalator in China.
The 30-second video
begins innocently enough: As the escalator in a shopping mall almost reaches
the top, a woman in a white shirt and black skirt lifts up her young son to get
ready to step off.
But as she does, a
metal panel collapses under her feet. She falls into the gap.
Chinese state media on
Monday named the woman as 31-year-old Xiang Liujuan.
Struggling with only
her upper body above the metal structure, Xiang is seen pushing her son
forward. The boy is quickly pulled to safety by a mall employee standing near
the top of the escalator.
Two other mall
employees try to drag Xiang out, but within a few seconds, she disappears
through the hole into the escalator shaft.
Despite a four-hour
rescue operation at the upscale AZG Mall in central China, firefighters
declared Xiang dead when they finally cut the escalator open and found her body
Sunday afternoon, state media reported.
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