Warning: photos may be distressing to some readers. Hong Kong: It was a humid summer day in Jingzhou, a city in central China, and Xiang Liujuan, a 31-year-old mother, had gone to the mall to relax.

HONG KONG - It was a humid summer day in Jingzhou, a city in central China, and Xiang Liujuan, a 31-year-old mother, had gone to the mall to relax. But after Xiang and 2-year-old her son had left the ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A Chinese woman who got trapped in a shopping mall escalator has died - but she managed to save her two-year-old son by pushing ...

BEIJING — A Chinese woman died after being trapped in a shopping mall escalator, but not before pushing her 2-year-old son to safety. Sunday’s horrific accident in the central city of Jingzhou was ...

A grisly escalator accident at a shopping mall in Jingzhou, China, resulted in the death of a woman who used her last few seconds to save her two-year-old son. The incident was caught on a ...

Reporting from BeijingReporting from Beijing — New details have emerged about the tragic case of a Chinese woman literally swallowed into the gears of an escalator this week as she disembarked from ...