Girl, six, and baby brother somersault down escalator after she tried to push pram in Moscow

Girl, six, and her baby brother somersault down escalator after the big sister tried to push pram onto moving stairs while their mother was shopping at Russian mall

  • The family were shopping in a Moscow mall when the horror accident took place
  • The mother was trying on clothes and told her children to wait outside
  • But the girl, Mudina, pushed her brother Mukhammadali down the escalator
  • They fell, causing the boy to lose two teeth and suffer wounds to his face

A young girl and her baby brother somersaulted down an escalator in a horror Russian shopping mall accident while their mother was trying on clothes in a nearby shop.

The woman told her daughter Mudina, six, and one of her friends to stand outside the Moscow fashion shop and look after son Mukhammadali, one, who was in a pushchair.

Instead, the girl pushed her brother’s pushchair onto the escalator but she lost control.

A young girl and her baby brother were sent somersaulting down an escalator in a horror accident while their mother was shopping in a Moscow mall

A young girl and her baby brother were sent somersaulting down an escalator in a horror accident while their mother was shopping in a Moscow mall

A video shows how they went head over heels down the moving staircase at Megapolis mall.

A shop assistant on a smoking break rushed to the bottom of the escalator to save the children.

Passing shoppers cared for the children.

The woman told her daughter Mudina, six, and a female child friend to stand outside the Moscow fashion shop

They were looking after son Mukhammadali, one, who was in a pushchair

The woman told her daughter Mudina, six, and a female child friend to stand outside the Moscow fashion shop and look after son Mukhammadali, one, who was in a pushchair

The girl pushed her brother's pushchair onto the escalator but she lost control and was sent tumbling

The girl pushed her brother’s pushchair onto the escalator but she lost control and was sent tumbling

She went head over heels down the moving staircase, with the pushchair landing on top of them

She went head over heels down the moving staircase, with the pushchair landing on top of them

A shop assistant on a smoking break rushed to the bottom of the escalator to save the children

A shop assistant on a smoking break rushed to the bottom of the escalator to save the children

The friend is seen at the top of the escalator running to tell the unnamed mother about the accident.

The children had been ‘ordered to stand near the clothes shop’ while the mother and her female friend tried on outfits, reported Moskovsky Komsomolets.

‘The kids disobeyed the order of the adults.

‘They decided to go down the escalator.’

The girl and boy both suffered head wounds, said reports.

The children's father was identified as Toshtemir Makhmadaliev (pictured), 32, a dairy plant worker

The children’s father was identified as Toshtemir Makhmadaliev (pictured), 32, a dairy plant worker

The horror accident took place at the Megapolis shopping centre (pictured) while the mother was in a nearby shop

The horror accident took place at the Megapolis shopping centre (pictured) while the mother was in a nearby shop

The boy lost two teeth, and wounds to his tongue and chin, and was being treated in Botkin hospital.

The girl was allowed home.

The children’s father was identified as Toshtemir Makhmadaliev, 32, a dairy plant worker.

Social services are to carry out a check into the family, said reports.

source: dailymail.co.uk