Terrifying video footage surfaced on October 23 of an escalator malfunctioning inside a Rome metro station.
In the video, the escalator moves downward at breakneck speed as hordes of people are hurtled to the bottom. A man on the parallel escalator pulls one person to safety. The incident injured more than 20 people, according to Vice.
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