3-Year-Old Chinese Boy Pushes Mother To Death Down Elevator Shaft

A three-year-old Zhejiang Province admitted to pushing his mother down an elevator shaft to her death on Saturday. The victim, 45-year-old Mrs Xie, was searching for her keys with the help of Yang Shao, manager of apartments where Mrs Xie lives.

They forced open the elevator door on the fifth floor and then Yang left the mother and her son near the lift at around 9 am. Mrs Xie peeked inside the elevator shaft, reports the Qiangjiang Evening Post.

Because Yang felt searching for the lost keys was dangerous, she returned to find only the boy near the lift. She asked the child where his mother is, and his reply was, “I pushed her down.”

Yang called for help and firefighters found the woman’s body at the shaft’s bottom. An ambulance was called. However, Mrs Xie was declared dead at the hospital.

The husband, identified only as Mr Tang, said, “The thing that makes me the saddest is that my wife has gone and my son will have to carry the blame for his whole life,” quotes the Telegraph.

In December 2014, another elevator accident killed a woman in Taiwan when she heard her 77-year-old father, whose legs were caught in the elevator door, cry for help. He left his daughter’s house in Taoyuan and was about to enter the lift when it shook and moved up with the door still open.

The old man’s legs was caught between the elevator floor and the floor ceiling. Neighbours who heard his cry called the police. Together with the elevator operator, they rescued the man who sustained some light wounds on his legs.

However, when he returned to his daughter’s unit to tell her what happened, he couldn’t find her. Based on a surveillance camera, the daughter probably heard her father and attempted to rescue him from the upper floor. But she accidentally fell into the shaft and died.

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