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KUALA LUMPUR: A weekend family outing turned tragic when a girl, believed to be six-years-old, fell from the third floor of a popular Mall in Kuala Lumpur at around 2pm Saturday.
The girl, Nurul Emielda Nadia Sallehuddin, was ascending an escalator to the third floor of the mall together with her parents when she fell.
According to her parents' statements to the police, they took their eyes off their daughter for a brief second when they heard a loud thud from a lower floor.
"They looked down and saw that their daughter had fallen off the escalator, and was lying on the floor several levels below.
"It is believed that Nurul Emielda slipped out of the corner of the escalator through a small opening," said Brickfields OCPD ACP Muhammad Azlee Abdullah.
An ambulance arrived shortly and Nurul Emielda was pronounced dead at the scene.
A shopping mall janitor, who cleaned up the area said she saw the child lying in a pool of blood with head injuries.
"Her parents were wailing and her mother kept saying 'she just started Year One!' (dia baru masuk Darjah Satu)" she said.
Shopping mall employees cordoned off the LG level and areas close to the escalators as police carried out their investigations.
Nurul Emielda's body was sent to the Universiti Malaya Medical Centre (UMMC) for a post-mortem, and the case has been classified as a sudden death.
