Escalator Accident

A biker was killed after a car that allegedly chased him on the streets of Bengaluru, rammed his motorcycle from the back on Wednesday night. Police say the incident occurred after an argument between the two escalated into road rage.

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Monday directed the officials concerned to ensure the safety and proper maintenance of lifts and escalators installed in multi-storey buildings, especially at public places.

Tierra Young Allen was involved in an accident and things escalated when she went to the car rental company to collect her personal belongings.

The women, who were carrying a walking stick and wheel chair, lost balance and fell backwards on an escalator.

A Delhi Police sub-inspector was withdrawn from field duty over allegations that he did not help a man involved in a road accident in Nangloi, which eventually escalated and led to the fatal stabbing of his brother.

The man, identified as Mehmet Ali Erik, is said to have spent an hour caught inside the escalator's mechanisms as other commuters tried and failed to free him.

Western leaders moved to calm fears of a dangerous escalation in Russia's war in Ukraine Wednesday, saying a missile blast in Poland was likely an accident, while Kyiv pushed back hard at the idea its anti-aircraft fire was to blame.

In case you ever wondered what could go wrong if you used an escalator as a luggage conveyor belt, a video posted on Reddit has the answer.

More than 20 people, mainly Russian football fans, were injured Tuesday when an escalator in a metro station in central Rome collapsed, firefighters said, in an incident some blamed on raucous soccer supporters.

An escalator in a Rome metro station packed with CSKA Moscow soccer fans broke on Tuesday, injuring at least 20 people as they were flung down the stairs, Italian police said.

A father and son's narrow escape from what could have been a terrible accident has been caught on camera. A video circulating online shows the duo stepping off a moving escalator only moments before it malfunctioned and crashed. The scary video has left many startled and collected quite a few reactions online.

Pakistan has barred an American diplomat from leaving the country, the latest escalation in a tense bilateral dispute stemming from a fatal traffic incident in early April. The diplomat, a U.S. military attache, allegedly ran a red light while driving an SUV in the capital and hit a motorcycle, killing the driver and injuring a passenger.

An 11-year-old boy in Shenzhen, China, decided to ride his bicycle up an escalator, but the stunt went horribly wrong.

In a tragic accident, a Chinese woman was crushed to death after falling into an escalator at a shopping mall but the heroic mother managed to save her 2-year-old son by pushing him to safety.

Nigerian authorities, battling to stem an escalating Islamist insurgency, covered up a bomb attack in the financial capital Lagos by claiming a blast near a major fuel depot was an industrial accident, according to an AFP investigation.

A biker was killed after a car that allegedly chased him on the streets of Bengaluru, rammed his motorcycle from the back on Wednesday night. Police say the incident occurred after an argument between the two escalated into road rage.

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Monday directed the officials concerned to ensure the safety and proper maintenance of lifts and escalators installed in multi-storey buildings, especially at public places.

Tierra Young Allen was involved in an accident and things escalated when she went to the car rental company to collect her personal belongings.

The women, who were carrying a walking stick and wheel chair, lost balance and fell backwards on an escalator.

A Delhi Police sub-inspector was withdrawn from field duty over allegations that he did not help a man involved in a road accident in Nangloi, which eventually escalated and led to the fatal stabbing of his brother.

The man, identified as Mehmet Ali Erik, is said to have spent an hour caught inside the escalator's mechanisms as other commuters tried and failed to free him.

Western leaders moved to calm fears of a dangerous escalation in Russia's war in Ukraine Wednesday, saying a missile blast in Poland was likely an accident, while Kyiv pushed back hard at the idea its anti-aircraft fire was to blame.

In case you ever wondered what could go wrong if you used an escalator as a luggage conveyor belt, a video posted on Reddit has the answer.

More than 20 people, mainly Russian football fans, were injured Tuesday when an escalator in a metro station in central Rome collapsed, firefighters said, in an incident some blamed on raucous soccer supporters.

An escalator in a Rome metro station packed with CSKA Moscow soccer fans broke on Tuesday, injuring at least 20 people as they were flung down the stairs, Italian police said.

A father and son's narrow escape from what could have been a terrible accident has been caught on camera. A video circulating online shows the duo stepping off a moving escalator only moments before it malfunctioned and crashed. The scary video has left many startled and collected quite a few reactions online.

Pakistan has barred an American diplomat from leaving the country, the latest escalation in a tense bilateral dispute stemming from a fatal traffic incident in early April. The diplomat, a U.S. military attache, allegedly ran a red light while driving an SUV in the capital and hit a motorcycle, killing the driver and injuring a passenger.

An 11-year-old boy in Shenzhen, China, decided to ride his bicycle up an escalator, but the stunt went horribly wrong.

In a tragic accident, a Chinese woman was crushed to death after falling into an escalator at a shopping mall but the heroic mother managed to save her 2-year-old son by pushing him to safety.

Nigerian authorities, battling to stem an escalating Islamist insurgency, covered up a bomb attack in the financial capital Lagos by claiming a blast near a major fuel depot was an industrial accident, according to an AFP investigation.