10-yr-old girl dies after getting trapped in lift

Vishakhpatnam, Jun 5: A 10-year-old girl died after she was trapped in between the lift and its door at an apartment complex at Tarakarama Nagar, Madhurawada here, on Sunday.

P. Pandu of Pusapatirega in Viziangaram district came to the city to eke out a living and is employed as a watchman at the apartment complex. His daughter Swathi (10) was studying in Std. III at a school in Madhurawada. She went to take the lift for going to the first floor.

She was very lean and got struck in the space between the grill gate and the lift door and her stomach and chest were crushed resulting in her instantaneous death, according to P.M. Palem Inspector K. Lakshmana Murthy. The police registered a case under Section 174 of Cr. PC and the body was shifted to the KGH for post-mortem examination.