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A 13-year-old boy has lost his left leg after getting caught in an escalator and suffering horrific injuries.

The teen had been at a shopping mall with friends and joined the moving stairs unaware his shoelaces had come undone.

The lace got caught in the mechanism and dragged the boy into the moving metal.

Eyewitnesses tried to record the scene of where the accident happened in the Plaza Aragon mall in Mexico City but police officers tried to stop them.

The boy was taken to a nearby hospital in a serious condition.

Doctors battled to save his leg, but the entire limb was amputated.

This escalator accident is the first of its kind in Mexico and has caused outrage across the country.

Similar incidents have occurred in the last few weeks in China.

A woman was killed, but managed to save her baby, after falling into an escalator and a toddler had serious injuries after falling into the mechanics.