Six people were injured when their hands got caught in a damaged escalator at JR Akihabara Station in Tokyo on Wednesday, police said.
At around 9:25 a.m., three men and three women got their hands pinched between the escalator’s handrail and a 50-cm-long metal lip on the inside that had gotten twisted and upturned, the police said.
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