Trapped for a month, woman in China dies in lift

March 06, 2016 20:54

A woman from the central Chinese city of Xian has died in an elevator of the apartment building where she was living after remaining trapped in it for over a month.

The police found the woman's body, which had begun decomposing, on March 1, and launched an investigation. "The scene was inhumane. We think she starved to death in there," one of the residents, Xiao Lin, told reporters. Another resident only named Wang said the elevator was full of markings of the victim's desperate attempts to get out.

Chinese media wondered how it was possible that the woman's corpse went unnoticed by the building's residents for over 30 days, although it could be that several residents may have been away on travels to other parts of China during the customary Lunar New Year festivities in February.

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