Elevators accidents claim two lives in UAE
Five year old Emirati girl and 35 year old man killed in seperate incidents
A five-year-old Emirati girl has lost her life after getting stuck between a concrete wall and lift at a supermarket in Ras Al Khaimah.
Though rescuers responded quickly to the accident, Col Abdullah Ali Mankhas, head of criminal investigation at the Ras Al Khaimah Police said the girl had already passed following the accident.
Initial investigations revealed the girl had used the lift meant for merchandise-transfer to a storeroom on a higher floor of the supermarket, and was not meant to be available to the public.
This is the second case of elevator accidents reported this week, as a maintenance worker from Sharjah succumbed to injuries after an elevator fell on him.
The accident took place when the man, 35, who was cleaning the lifts on the third floor of a residential building in Al Buteena area, got stuck between the lift and elevator shaft walls.
A report by Khaleej Times stated Major Al Naqbi, duty officer at Al Heera police station said colleagues of the worker did not call the police until almost 40 minutes after the accident.
