Firemen free man with leg caught in escalator


Helping hand: A Fire and Rescue Department personnel working on removing the man who got his leg stuck in an escalator at a shopping mall in Kuala Lumpur.

KUALA LUMPUR: A man’s leg got stuck in an escalator at a shopping mall here for about 45 minutes before he was released by a team from the Fire and Rescue Department.

The department’s operations commander Mohd Zuhair Faisal Zulkifli said they dispatched six personnel from the Titiwangsa station to the scene five minutes after they received a call yesterday.

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