2-year-old boy at airport gets foot caught in escalator, breaks leg

A Canadian mother is warning others about the dangers of escalators after her 2-year-old son's foot got caught in one at the airport.

Andrea Diaczok, her husband and their young son Julian were at the Vancouver International Airport on their way back home to Calgary. They were halfway down the escalator when Julian's little shoe became stuck between the side railing and the stairs.

"His whole boot basically disappeared," Diaczok told the Calgary Herald. "The teeth bit onto his toe midway … I started screaming for help."

Diaczok said that since they were in the middle of the escalator, neither she nor her husband could push the emergency stop. By the time the escalator stopped moving, they were only a few steps from the bottom.

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