Customers threatened by yet another deadly escalator trapdoor opening up in Chinese shopping mall

  • Video shows customers walking to escalator at mall in Shenyang in China
  • Shopper can be seen stumbling as a large metal plate appears to give way
  • It comes after a woman was 'swallowed' by an escalator in Hubei province
  • Video shows her being pulled in to machinery after pushing son to safety

By Julian Robinson for MailOnline

Published: 11:10 EST, 20 September 2015 | Updated: 14:16 EST, 20 September 2015

This is the terrifying moment metal flooring gave way at the top of an escalator in a Chinese mall - just weeks after footage emerged of a woman being 'swallowed' in a similar incident.

New video shows customers walking to the top of the downward escalator at a shopping centre in Shenyang in northeast China's Liaoning Province.

But the foot plate appears to collapse under their weight causing one of the panicked shoppers to stumble momentarily before leaping back to safety.

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New video shows customers walking to the top of the downward escalator at a shopping centre in Shenyang in northeast China's Liaoning Province 

New video shows customers walking to the top of the downward escalator at a shopping centre in Shenyang in northeast China's Liaoning Province 

A metal foot plate appears to collapse under the weight of the shoppers causing one of the panicked customers to stumble momentarily before leaping back to safety

A metal foot plate appears to collapse under the weight of the shoppers causing one of the panicked customers to stumble momentarily before leaping back to safety

One of them runs away down the stairs next to the machinery before worried shoppers can be seen gathering to inspect the trapdoor. 

The footage has chilling echoes of an incident earlier this summer in which a 30-year-old woman died in an horrific escalator accident in Hubei province in July.

In that incident, the woman managed to push her son up to safety as she was tragically pulled into the machinery with her young child looking on.

Days later a shopping centre cleaner has had his leg amputated after it became stuck in a separate escalator.

Horrific CCTV footage shows the 35-year-old man stepping over the top platform of the Shanghai shopping mall escalator when his leg accidentally becomes wedged in a gap on the steps.

Video shows the customers darting back across the metal foot plate after it momentarily gave way

Video shows the customers darting back across the metal foot plate after it momentarily gave way

One of them runs away down the stairs next to the machinery before worried shoppers can be seen gathering to inspect the trapdoor

One of them runs away down the stairs next to the machinery before worried shoppers can be seen gathering to inspect the trapdoor

Shoppers look at the shopping mall escalator after it was closed following an accident in Shanghai in August

Shoppers look at the shopping mall escalator after it was closed following an accident in Shanghai in August

Though the escalator stopped immediately and firefighters managed to get the man free, his leg was damaged so badly that doctors had no choice but to amputate..

In the same week a one-year-old toddler was dragged into one of the moving staircases when he tripped and fell, causing his left arm to be wedged into a gap on the machine.

When the child was finally freed from the machinery, his left arm appeared to be fractured, with reports suggesting he may face amputation.

Chinese control authorities have revealed 73 deaths and 82 injuries were recorded in 74 escalator accidents across the country in the first half of this year.

Using leaps, jumps and holding themselves over the escalators edge, Chinese shoppers have been seen posting unusual techniques to social media showing how they avoid the end of an escalator
Using leaps, jumps and holding themselves over the escalators edge, Chinese shoppers have been seen posting unusual techniques to social media showing how they avoid the end of an escalator

Using leaps, jumps and holding themselves over the escalator's edge, Chinese shoppers (pictured) have been seen posting unusual techniques to avoid touching the escalator footplate on social media

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