WILL CHINA BOYCOTT ESCALATORS?

Talk about escalators and how people in China have been avoiding them. One instantly thinks they are onto some fitness quest this time. But this step doesn’t come from awareness to staying healthy; it comes from a tragic accident.

The incident took place in Jingzhou’s shopping mall when a woman got trapped and killed in the metal panel of an escalator while trying to push her child away from danger. On further investigation and CCTV surveillance, the video shows that employees were aware of the glitches in the machine minutes before the woman took it.

The whole incident has sparked angst among the commoners and they have taken to either not using the stairs or as a means of protest, they are using the escalators in an unusual way, i.e. by leaning on both sides of it. This is not the first time China has seen people getting injured or dying due to malfunctioning of escalators.

While many expressed their concerns about the safety standards of escalators in China, some paid tribute to the mother and ensured the child was in safe hands.