Thread: Body found in Chinese lift month after it was switched off

A woman's body was found inside a lift in China a month after it was improperly switched off, a regional government statement said.

Her body was found in a residential building in the central city of Xi'an.

The elevator had been turned off by two maintenance workers on 30 January. The body was found when other workers arrived on 1 March.

Police are treating the death as involuntary manslaughter. Several people have been arrested.

One local report said scratches were found inside the lift, one of two inside the building.

It is believed the woman was 43 years old and lived by herself in the building, the statement by Gaoling's government said. Her family did not visit her often, it said.

The workers had been called to fix a fault with the elevator and had shouted to see if anyone was inside.

Their failure to check properly amounted to "gross negligence", government officials said.

The work on the broken lift was delayed partly because of the new year holidays.

Body found in Chinese lift month after it was switched off - BBC News

Hell of a way to go...

RIP...

Involuntary manslaughter?
Really?

That's just gruesome. Fuck, what a horrible way to go.

All alone in the freezing cold pitch black. Horrifying.

Jesus christ

Originally Posted by Black Heart

Jesus christ

No.
I believe the deceased was a middle-aged Chinese woman.

What a tragic end for the poor woman.

That block of apartments had probably bought up by a developer who wants to knock the old block down and rebuild a new building, but there's always one stubborn old owner that clings on and won't move out.
So they murder her.
Nobody seems to have reported her missing.

Originally Posted by wasabi

That block of apartments had probably been bought up by a developer who wants to knock down the old block and rebuild, but there's always one stubborn old owner that clings on and won't move out.

So they murder her.

SOP in Asia sadly.

a nasty slow way to go.

Mind you, things could have been much worse if she had eaten a curry just before getting in.

There's a script for a Thai movie somewhere in that news report.

The saddest part of the story for me is that no-one noticed she was missing. A whole month goes by and no-one asked after her. That is a sad way to live and a sad way to die.