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NEWS 3:

Shanghai man's lower leg amputated after getting trapped in escalator

By Tiffany Ap and Steven Jiang, CNN
Mon, August 3, 2015



HONG KONG (CNN) — A Shanghai man has had his lower leg amputated after becoming trapped in a mall escalator, the third serious escalator-related accident in China in a week.

The 35-year-old man, surnamed Zhang, was a cleaner at the Cloud Nine shopping mall in Shanghai's Zhongshan Park, state media said.

Video surveillance footage shows him cleaning with a mop on Sunday evening before one of the escalator's metal floor panels give way, trapping his left lower leg.

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NEWS 1:

Chinese mother saves son seconds before falling to death inside escalator

By Steven Jiang, CNN
Tue, July 28, 2015



Beijing (CNN) — 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 suddenly collapses under her feet and she falls into the gap.

Struggling with only her upper body above the structure, the mother 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 the trapped woman 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 the woman dead when they finally cut the escalator open and found her body Sunday afternoon (July 27 PHT), state media reported.

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These three accidents have led to heightened concerns and scrutiny of the country’s aging escalators and elevators, many of which are not up to acceptable safety standards. A report by the country’s Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine (AQSIQ), cited by the state Xinhua news agency, found that more than 110,000 escalators have potential safety issues of which over 26,000 have not yet been repaired.

The AQSIQ said there were 49 escalator accidents in 2014 that claimed 37 lives, the Global Times said, citing Xinhua. The accidents were generally caused by poor design, the use of substandard materials, installation and maintenance, China Elevator Association official Zhang Lexiang told the Global Times.

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The central government has ordered all its provincial authorities to ensure that escalators in every mall are functioning properly by Aug. 10. Chinese citizens are meanwhile taking no chances. Images and videos of their ways of dealing with escalator-phobia, being shared on Chinese social media (and excerpted here by BuzzFeed), range from practical to hilarious to risky.

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Just Tuesday, another teenager burst into an empty hotel elevator shaft, fell, and died, according to news portal Sina News.

Businesses’ overall lack of any sort of safety mentality, appropriate training for staffers, and failure to comply with regulations are making people distrustful of public security.

People figured out that they had to be more self-reliant to guarantee their safety. These are some of the results of a national brainstorming strategy, fitting the Chinese pattern of reacting to tragedies with laughter instead of tears:

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2. “Every single step is a life-threatening pitfall,” this man is teaching his children:



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4. This ultimate guide for riding an escalator has begun circulating on Weibo. A commenter says, “Trained to do standing long jump for so many years and it’s finally in use, now I understand the school gym teacher’s deep love.”



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6. But then things, as they tend to do when the internet is involved, got weird. Here’s one girl attempting to answer the question: “Does it mean I’m safe as long as I don’t touch the ground?!”



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8. This is a bad idea. Do not attempt this idea.



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Hmm, man-eating escalators? Di kaha ni usa ka new-fangled wakang weapon of mass destruction?



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mao nay superman nga makapahugno ug escalator.  nakalimot ug diet.

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