A child's hand was pinched on an escalator in the St. Petersburg metro

A child's hand was pinched on the escalator of the Akademicheskaya metro station in St. Petersburg. This was reported on July 16 in the Telegram channel of the city prosecutor's office.

"On the evening of July 15, 2025, the child's hand was pinched on the escalator, he was seriously injured," the department said.

It is noted that the child was hospitalized in a medical facility, he has already received the necessary assistance.

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On May 12, in a shopping center in Ussuriysk, a one-and-a-half-year-old boy's hand got into the moving mechanism of an escalator, because he stumbled and fell. The child was taken to the intensive care unit, he lost four fingers.