Mother is swallowed by escalator

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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.

More info here Warning - CNN provides a video of the panel collapsing, but not the woman being sucked all the way in.