Boy, 1, gets his hand stuck in the rolling belt of an escalator while playing with the handrail
A one-year-old boy was rescued at a shopping centre in southern China after getting his hand stuck in a moving escalator.
The toddler was playing with the escalator handrail of a mall in Lusong District, Hunan province while his mother stood just feet away.
CCTV footage of the incident on Sunday shows the boy mischievously reaching into the gap between the rolling belt and the handrail and was not able to pull his hand back out.
A one-year-old boy was rescued at a shopping centre Lusong District, Hunan province after getting his hand stuck in a moving escalator
The mother rushed to her son and attempted to pull his hand out of the escalator
However, prior to the incident, the mother was seen watching her son play near the escalator, but did not appear to stop him from doing so.
The mother rushed him and attempted to pull his hand out of the escalator as soon as she noticed him being stuck.
The escalator has a fail-safe mode built in and stopped working as soon as it detected an obstacle, Zhuzhou Media Network reported.
The urban patrol team and emergency services were alerted to the scene.
The one-year-old boy was seen playing with the escalator handrail before the accident
However, prior to the incident, the mother was seen watching his son play near the moving escalator but did not appear to stop him from doing so. The child suffered minor injuries
Ten minutes later, they were able to free the boy after taking the handrail panel apart.
The child was taken to Hunan Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, where he was treated for minor injuries, according to the report.
Incidents on escalators in China are a common occurrence.
In March last year, a six-year-old boy in Chongqing, south-west China, also got his hand stuck in an escalator while playing.
Last January, an elderly man in China tumbled down a moving escalator for almost a full minute before being rescued.