An escalator at a shopping complex in Hong Kong suddenly changed direction "speeding down twice as fast".
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Dramatic footage shows shoppers tumbling over each other as the 45-metre-tall escalator suddenly changed direction.?
The accident caused a massive human pile-up at the foot of the escalator, leaving around 18 people injured.?
Shopper Lau Kit-ying, who witnessed the incident, told the South China Morning Post ¡°It was so sudden that people couldn¡¯t respond in time more than 10 people piled up near the base of the escalator,¡± Lau said.
According to reports, the escalators mechanics had allegedly deliberately tampered with the escalator. ?The two mechanics?aged 22 and 52, were charged with obstruction of justice state local reports.?