This is how people in China are riding the escalator

Many of us saw the horrifying final moments of a woman who got trapped in an escalator in a China mall after the floor fell from beneath her.

Xiang Liujuan, 30, was holding her son in front of her as they went up the stairway on Saturday, the Wuhan Evening News says. 

Security camera footage of the incident posted online shows a panel in the floor giving way as Xiang stepped off the escalator.

As she fell half-way through she pushed her son forward, and a nearby shop assistant dragged him to safety.

It was a big shock for both the people around her at the time and anyone who saw the horrifying footage.

Now, according to a report on Cosmopolitan, people in China have been sharing posts of how they've been riding the escalator since the incident on the Chinese social networking site, Weibo.

According to a report on the BBC, investigators discovered that mall employees were aware that the escalator panel that fell from beneath the woman was loose, but didn't do anything about it.