Children Tumble Like ‘Dominoes’ on Escalator
Schoolchildren on a field trip to a Manhattan movie theater were knocked to the bottom of an escalator in a pileup after a teacher pressed the emergency stop button because a student’s pants snagged on a loose screw, officials said.
“One of them fell and then another one, and then they all started falling like a bunch of dominoes,” a fire official said of the incident at the Loews Lincoln Square and Imax Theater.
According to fire and building officials, 10 people were taken to a hospital and 14 others were treated at the scene for scrapes.
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