Woman found dead after being trapped in elevator for a month
The body of a 43-year-old woman has been found after she was trapped in an elevator for a month. We take a look at other weird places where dead bodies have been found.
A woman was found dead after being trapped for a month in an elevator in Xi'an, China, mashable.com has reported.
On January 31, maintenance workers reportedly shut off the power supply to service an elevator that was not functioning properly. They then went on Chinese New Year break and only returned to work on March 1. That is when they found the dead body of the woman and what seemed like desperate scratch marks were also found on the lift walls.
CCTV reports that two people in charge of the elevator company have been arrested. The two face charges of involuntary manslaughter.
This is not the first report of a dead body found in a weird place.
- Earlier in 2016, five bodies of dead children were found in a freezer in Northern Cape. The children were cousins aged between three and seven. According to reports, the old freezer, accidentally locked itself while the kids were playing in it.
- In 2009, a corpse was found with its legs exposed in an elevator shaft in Detroit. According to reports, the dead person was a homeless person.
- In 2010, a human foot was found inside a tiger shark.
- Joshua Scott from Alabama found an urn full of human ashes inside a teddy bear he bought at a thrift shop.
- Eilsa Lam from Canada reportedly drowned inside a rooftop water tank of the Cecil Hotel in Downtown Los Angeles, California. Her body was found when maintenance workers went to fix the tank after guests at the hotel complained about strange taste coming from the water.
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