Old Video Of Man Being Swallowed By Escalator Goes Viral
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The man is said to have spent an hour caught inside the escalator's mechanisms as other commuters tried and failed to free him.
A terrifying video of an underground station where a man was swallowed by an escalator as a huge gaping hole appeared beneath his feet is going viral on the internet and has shocked many. Escalator failure in Turkey pic.twitter.com/KY2fHVGLsB
As per BBC, the incident took place at Ayazaga Metro station in Istanbul, Turkey in February 2018.
The CCTV video shows commuters walking down the escalators. The man steps onto a few steps on the escalator and then finds himself unexpectedly clinging to the handrail. However, he is unable to hold on and is swallowed by the malfunctioning escalator. It appears as if the escalator split beneath him.
Watch the video here.
