Lift in China plummets 19 levels before shooting up 35 floors, passenger dies from head injury

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Lift in China plummets 19 levels before shooting up 35 floors, passenger dies from head injury

Lift overrun accident leads to death of 59-year-old resident Wei (name transliterated from Chinese), a 59-year-old man from Kunming, China died after his apartment’s lift shot up 35 floors and collided with the shaft ceiling. On 18 Feb evening, Mr Wei took the lift to retrieve an item from his apartment. However, the lift lost control like a “roller coaster”, plunging rapidly from the 17th floor to the basement before shooting up to the 33rd flo…