An escalator incident in Promenade

My family and I were killing time on the 2nd floor of Promenade, Greenhills Shopping Center last night. We were excited to watch Thor and bought tickets for the 10pm screening.

Suddenly, we heard a crashing sound, metallic, long and loud and people were screaming and crowding around the sides of the 2nd floor as everyone tried to see what was going on. It took me several seconds to squeeze my way into the crowd to see what caused the frightful sound when I saw a long metallic part of the escalator’s left side (going down) that seemed to have been ripped off from its position and it dangled wildly across the escalator’s width. An opening allowed me to get a good view of the sight below. I took my digicam out and started taking pictures.

 

This was the first picture I shot of the accident

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