Escalator malfunction injures multiple fans prior to Roma-CSKA
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More than 20 individuals were injured Tuesday in Rome after an escalator inexplicably malfunctioned in a metro station and sent several people violently crashing toward the bottom, according to the BBC.
In a video posted to social media, multiple fans traveling to the Stadio Olimpico to watch CSKA Moscow face Roma in the Champions League can be seen caught in a dangerous bottleneck at the base of the escalator after it suddenly speeds up without warning.
Photos of the machinery posted afterward detail the damage.
Roma later pledged its support to providing aid to those who were seriously injured in the incident.
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