Terrifying moment an escalator swallows mother as she flings son (Viewer's discretion)

What can be considered as horror is what happened in a shopping centre in the city of Jinzhou, Beijing, China, where a mother holding her son, going up an escalator fell to her death as the panel of the stairs caved in and swallowed her.
The video footage shows how motherly instinct in the 30 year-old Xiang Liujuan, made her quickly fling her son forward to safety as all effort made by some shop assistants to save her own life failed.

Tragic!