Raipur:

A routine outing turned into a nightmare for a family as their one-and-a-half-year-old child died after slipping from his father’s arms and plummetting to the ground below at a popular shopping mall in Chhattisgarh’s Raipur on Tuesday.

CCTV footage from Raipur’s City Centre Mall showed a man carrying the boy in his arms with another individual and a 5-year-old child accompanying them. The man momentarily paused to prevent the 5-year-old child from ascending an escalator when the toddler in his arms slipped from his grasp and fell to the ground.

The child was rushed to a hospital where he succumbed to his injuries and died.