Other tenants sounded off on the death.
Others believed that she starved to death inside the lift. The woman’s hands were mangled during her apparent attempts to escape the elevator.
“The paramedics told us that when they found the body, her hand had already begun to deform,” a resident surnamed Wang said, reported Shanghaiist. “There were markings all over the inside of the elevator, it’s just too horrible.”
“The scene was inhumane,” said Xiaolin, another tenant.
Now, two maintenance workers face charges for negligence. They were called in to deal with a broken cable and knocked on the door, and when they heard no response, they cut power to the elevator and told residents to use another lift in the meantime. The workers came back weeks later and discovered the grisly scene.
“There’s now a shadow across my heart. It’s scary, and it gives me shivers,” one resident with the surname Ding said, according to the Sydney Morning Herald. “To think of this happening in one’s own building.”
It’s unclear how the woman, who is believed to be in her 40s, went missing for one month without friends or family getting worried. She lived by herself in the building.
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