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While taking a lift is a mundane everyday activity for most, it can prove to be fatal in certain circumstances.
A woman had the bad luck of falling into a gap as she was exiting a lift at an airport in Indonesia.
Source: @Midjan_La_2 on Twitter
Her body was found only three days later.
CCTV footage of the tragic incident has gone viral over social media platforms like Instagram and Twitter.
The 44-second clip has the time stamp of 8.24pm on Monday (24 Apr).
It begins with the woman entering the double-sided lift (i.e. with two separate sets of doors) via the doors on the right.
The woman stands facing the doors on the right — the same ones she entered — clearly expecting them to open.
She inches closer to them as she prepares to exit, looking at her phone.
Source: @Midjan_La_2 on Twitter
However, the doors on the left open instead and it’s uncertain whether she notices this as she’s facing the opposite direction.
Source: @Midjan_La_2 on Twitter
She seems confused when the doors on the right don’t open, as she’s seen glancing up and moving towards the side of the lift, presumably to press some buttons.
Source: @Midjan_La_2 on Twitter
She then appears to make a phone call, then approaches the lift doors to touch them.
Source: @Midjan_La_2 on Twitter
Finally, the doors on the right open, and the woman moves to exit the lift.
Shockingly, though, she falls through a large gap between the lift and the landing.
Within two seconds, she disappears from the screen, feared to have fallen to her death.
Though she fell on Monday (24 Par), the unfortunate woman’s body was found only on Thursday (27 Apr), the airport police told news outlet Tribun-Medan.
This was after staff detected a strong smell coming from the lift area at Kualanamu International Airport in Medan, Indonesia.
Her body was eventually uncovered at the bottom of the lift shaft.
Security teams took five hours to extract the remains, which were thereafter transported to a hospital for forensic examination.
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The authorities identified the body as belonging to a woman named Asiyah Sinta Dewi Hasibuan.
While they said she was in her 30s, Kompas.com reported that she was 43.
She had gone to the airport to send off her relative, who was travelling overseas.
While she was about to head off, she was called back by her relative, who had encountered problems at the airport.
When she got stuck in the lift, Ms Asiyah called her relative — something that she was seen doing in the CCTV footage.
Later, her relative was left puzzled when she didn’t appear.
Her family told Kompas.com that they’d sought help from airport security to look for her.
However, when they checked the lift, they found it empty.
When they asked for CCTV footage, they were reportedly told that they would have to go through many procedures.
The deceased woman’s brother has now accused the airport of poor lift safety.
He questioned where the gap that she fell through had come from, telling Kompas.com that he would make a police report over the incident after the funeral is over.
The family is still grieving, and they haven’t been able to accept her sudden death, he added.
MS News extends our deepest condolences to the deceased’s family. May they find out what happened so they can get some form of closure.
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Featured image adapted from @Midjan_La_2 on Twitter.
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