Staff at the Chinese shopping mall where a mother died after being trapped in an escalator knew that the footplate the woman fell through was loose but failed to shut the machine down, it has emerged.

Xiang Liujuan, 30, was killed when the flooring at the top of an escalator collapsed as she stepped on it. She pushed her two-year-old son to safety before being dragged into the machinery, the ...

WARNING - graphic content: Authorities today revealed staff in the upscale mall had allegedly known about the hazard before Sunday's tragedy ...