X-ray vision: Chinese woman crawls through railway security scanner to keep an eye on her handbag

Eerie X-ray images of a Chinese woman crawling through a luggage scanner at a railway station have become the latest smash hit on a video sharing website.

The incident happened about 6pm on Sunday at Dongguan railway station in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong.

In footage taken from a surveillance camera and shown on Pearvideo.com on Tuesday, the unidentified woman is seen approaching the security checkpoint and loading her luggage onto the scanner’s conveyor belt.

However, after being told that she must also send her handbag through the machine, she apparently decides that leaving it unattended is a risk too high to take, so climbs in after it.

Despite the best efforts of the machine’s operators to deter the woman, she travels the full length of the conveyor and emerges, along with assorted items of baggage, at the far end.