Hours after an escalator at the United Nations stopped abruptly as US President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump stepped onto it, the organisation said it may have resolved the mystery behind it.

Reuters quoted Stephane Dujarric, a spokesperson of the United Nations, as saying that a readout of the escalator’s central processing unit indicated it “had stopped after a built-in safety mechanism on the comb step was triggered at the top of the escalator".

He said Trump’s videographer had been travelling backwards up the escalator to capture his arrival with First Lady Melania Trump.

“The videographer may have inadvertently triggered the safety function," Dujarric said in a statement.

“The safety mechanism is designed to prevent people or objects from accidentally being caught

See Full Page