A two-year-old girl is seriously hurt after falling to the first floor from an escalator at a shopping mall in Bukit Jambul, Penang, yesterday.

Utusan Online reported that the girl was sitting on her father's shoulders when the incident occurred at Bukit Jambul Complex about 6.30pm.

The report, quoting police sources, said it was understood that the girl fell after her father, who was going up to the first floor of the mall, panicked when he saw his daughter’s hand was caught on the side of the escalator (pemegang escalator).