SHANGHAI, Oct. 6 (Xinhua) -- An Indian man fell from the fourth floor of a newly-opened Marks and Spencer department store in Shanghai on Sunday evening, police here said on Monday.

    The accident occurred at around 9:30 p.m. when Shah Harshit, 24,fell from an escalator on the fourth floor of the store in Nanjing West Road, a Shanghai Municipal Public Security Bureau official said.

    Harshit was shopping with friends in the mall that day. The mall was opened on Oct. 2 and was the first mall of the British retailer Marks and Spenser in the Chinese mainland.

    There was a dangerous two-meter gap between two adjacent escalators, said the official.

    The mall opened as usual on Monday.

    The cause of the accident is under investigation.