Escalator crush: 16 pupils hurt
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SIXTEEN students were injured, five of them seriously, yesterday morning in an escalator stampede during a primary school’s autumn outing to an indoor amusement park in Nanjing, capital of east China’s Jiangsu Province, Jiangsu Television reported.
The incident occurred at 10am at the Rsun Mall when Grade I and II students from the Nanjing Yuhua Experimental Primary School were taking an escalator to the amusement park on the third floor, it reported.
The park’s gate wasn’t completely open but the escalator continued moving upwards, taking along the students. The 3-square-meter escalator platform couldn’t accommodate all of them, forcing students to push each other. In the ensuing melee some of them stepped back and fell, the Yangtze Evening News reported.
A teacher surnamed Chen said there were about 70 to 80 students on the escalator when the stampede happened. She pressed an emergency button to stop the escalator but it failed to work, it reported.
The paper said all the students are in stable condition now.
Five of the injured students, three boys and two girls, are being treated at the Nanjing Children’s Hospital, having suffered severe external wounds, which required stitches to their face and head. Two of them are in the intensive care unit, JSTV reported.
The other 11, four boys and seven girls, had their wounds cleaned and taped. After getting anti-tetanus vaccine shots at the Nanjing Pukou Hospital four of them were sent home, according to the Yuhuatai District Education Bureau.
The school said the trip was arranged by a travel agency and had been registered with the local education authority, the paper reported.
This is not the first incident involving students on escalators.
In April 2013, nine second graders and a teacher were injured, five of them seriously, in an escalator stampede at an indoor children’s park in Shenzhen City, south China’s Guangdong Province.
The Nanfang Daily reported then that one student was tying his shoelaces while taking a descending escalator and wasn’t aware that he had arrived on the third floor, which triggered the stampede.
Seeing students tumbling down, a teacher pressed the emergency button and the escalator stopped. However, the sudden halt caused a second stampede.
Three of the injured students suffered fractures, including two with head injuries, it said.
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