BEIJING:
A 24-year-old Indian national died after he fell from the fourth floor of a
newly-opened Marks and Spencer department store in Shanghai, police said on
Monday.
The accident occurred
on Sunday evening when Shah Harshit fell from an escalator on the fourth floor
of the store in Nanjing West Road, a Shanghai Municipal Public Security Bureau
official was quoted by Xinhua as saying in the eastern metropolis.
Harshit was shopping with
friends in the mall. The mall was opened on October two and was the first mall
of the British retailer Marks and Spenser in the Chinese mainland.
There was a dangerous
two-meter gap between two adjacent escalators, the official said.
The cause of the accident is
under investigation. A large number of Indians are working in Shanghai, the
financial and commercial hub of China.
