A mother's worst nightmare: Woman trips over her outfit on an escalator and drops her baby 40ft to its death at a shopping centre in Uzbekistan
- WARNING: DISTRESSING CONTENT
- Footage from CCTV at a shopping mall in Uzbekistan shows the horror incident
- Woman is dressed in a headscarf and a long dress which appears to get caught
- It causes her to stumble down some steps and the to child to fall from her arms
- The baby drops the equivalent to a four-storey building to the tiled floor below
A young mother dropped her baby 40 feet to its death after she stumbled when her outfit got caught in an escalator.
Footage from security cameras in a shopping centre in Uzbekistan shows the woman in a long dress and a headscarf coming down an escalator with a baby in her right arm and holding an older child with her left hand.
It looks like the dress gets stuck in the escalator, causing her to stumble down the steps and the child to fall out of her arms and over the side.
The woman is captured at the top of the escalator in the dark dress as she begins to stumble
Apparently caused by her dress getting caught in the moving staircase, she drops her baby
Completely helpless, she is forced to watch her baby plummet down the shopping centre
It is reported that the height the baby fell from was equal to that of a four-storey building, typically 40 feet, and onto the tiled flooring below.
Emergency crews who rushed to the scene were unable to save the child’s life.
The horrifying incident took place in the O’zbegim shopping centre in the city of Andijan, in east-central Uzbekistan.
Baby fell the equivalent to four storeys, typically 40 feet, to its death in the shopping centre
The video has been shared locally online and people have already been reacting to the shocking incident.
Some have blamed the mother for the death, saying her choice of clothing was inappropriate.
But Andrey said: "Another baby angel. Poor woman, I can only imagine how devastated she must be."
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